Margazhi

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Tamil

The Tamil month of Chennai's great music and dance season.

ConceptBharatanatyamKuchipudiOdissiKathak

Meaning

Margazhi falls roughly from mid-December to mid-January and is considered especially auspicious. In Chennai it brings the season: hundreds of concerts and recitals across the city's sabhas within a few weeks, drawing artists and audiences from around the world.

Also written: margazhi season, marghazhi

Related words

SabhaAn organisation that presents concerts and recitals.ParamparaAn unbroken line of transmission from guru to student.ArangetramA dancer's first full solo recital before an audience.BaniA school or style of Bharatanatyam, carried down a lineage.ShishyaThe student in the guru-shishya relationship.RasaThe flavour or sentiment an audience is left tasting.

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