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    Fusion of Middle Eastern music and Odissi dance

    The Sri Lanka Times
    Sunday, 26 February 2012 10:37


    'Harmony', an exhilarating concert of dance and music featuring lead
    artiste Guy Manoukian, the award winning Lebanese Armenian musician
    and his Middle Eastern orchestra and Sharmila Gunasingham,
    accomplished exponent of classical Odissi dance, and Ramli Ibrahim,
    leading male Odissi expert, dancing together as Radha & Krishna will
    give local audiences something new and exciting.

    Manoukian, known as the maestro of Arabic music, creates a unique
    sound with his talented orchestra, fusing together Arabic with
    Armenian, Kurdish Assyrian, Chaldean and Greek music.

    This concert originally produced and premiered in Singapore will be
    performed in Colombo for one night only on February 28 at the Nelum
    Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Theatre. Guy and his orchestra will be joined
    on stage by musicians and performers from Singapore, Malaysia, India,
    and Sri Lanka. GR Visions Singapore is proud to present this cultural
    fusion.

    Manoukian, musician, composer and producer has collaborated with
    international stars like Wyclef Jean, 50 Cent, and Raul DiBlasio from
    The Gypsy Kings.

    At the prestigious Middle Eastern Beiteddine festival, which draws
    famous performers from across the world including the likes of Elton
    John, Ricky Martin and UB40, he performed to high acclaim and was
    accompanied by the internationally renowned Armenian Philharmonic
    Orchestra with guest performer Mario Reyes from the Gypsy Kings.

    Guy has won multiple awards across the globe from Lebanon and Dubai to
    the USA. His albums, released by EMI, have topped the charts and won
    him fans across the world.

    A Singapore corporate lawyer, Sharmila is an accomplished exponent of
    classical Indian dance.

    Daughter of a distinguished Sri Lankan diplomat the late Mr. C
    Gunasingham, Sharmila, though coming from a Tamil community that
    traditionally performs the South Indian Bharata Natyam dance, has
    mastered Odissi Indian dance as well.

    Sharmila has selected to essay roles as diverse as the goddess of love
    in an Indian classical dance version of Shakespeare's 'Midsummer
    Night's Dream' and the famous courtesan Ambapali in 'Enlightenment' a
    musical English dance drama based on the 6th Century BC Indian epic
    story portraying the life of the famous courtesan Ambapali during the
    Buddha's era.

    For further information, please contact the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda
    Rajapaksa Theatre Box Office at (9411) 266 9024.

    http://www.sundaytimes.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16298 :fusion-of-middle-eastern-music-and-odissi-dance&catid=73:music&Itemid=512



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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