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| Glimmering lights, incense, ornaments and the wonderful music set the mood in the theater. |
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| On January 30th, the Ambassador of India, Mr. Amitava Tripathi, invited all the international community, missions, organizations and citizens of Brazilia for the celebration of India's Republic Day. |
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| The Ambassador of India, Mr. Amitava Tripathi. |
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| Citizens of the clergy, the general public, Brazilian governmental authorities and diplomats came to watch the magnificent shows. |
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| The India's Republic Day is usually commemorated with a presentation of music and dance and this year it couldn't be different and the Embassy of India organized a very special event with the coordinatin of the Indian artist, living in Brasília, Anand Jyothi and his wife Karina. The "Noite Indiana" brought Indians and Brazilian artists together showing the classical dance and music, dedicated to the thousand of victms of the tsunami in the countries in Asia in December of 2004. |
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| Anand Jyothi, Indian, unites to Krucis, Brazilian, to play the classical Ragas of the Indian Music. |
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| For the musical programme, the Indian tablist Anand Jyothi and Master Krucis, sitar player from São Paulo who spent years studying the Indian culture, showed the true authentic classical music of India. |
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| The surprise of the evening was the very special arrangement when the artists mixed the Brazilian and Indian rhythms, accompanied by Kiko Peres (guitar) and Renato Mattos (voice). |
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| The artists played the Ragas in the traditional way, but in the end they invited two very respected musicians from Brasília and started the audience with a wonderful surprise: an arrangement combining the Indian with the Brazilian music. With the addition of Kiko Peres on the guitar and Renato Mattos singing with his powerful voice, the group performed old traditional Brazilian Popular Music songs and carried all the audience, that sang along. |
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| Aglaia Azevedo enchanted the audience with the classical Indian dance. |
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| The pieces showed how the ladies danced to please the gods. |
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| The second half of the show was performed by he dancer Aglaia Azevedo. Mrs. Azevedo is from Rio de Janeiro and she has been a professional ballerina for over 22 years, now, 15 of them dedicated to the Indian dance and theater. Aglaia Azevedo demonstrated different pieces of how the ladies in India dance to the honor and please the gods for centuries. |
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| From left to right: Ambassador of Germany, Mr. Friedrich Prot von Kunow, Ambassador of Poland, Mr. Krzysztof Jacek Hinz and Ambassador of Sri Lanka, General Rohan de Silva Daluwatte. |
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| The artists take picture with Ambassador Amitava Tripathi. |
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| The event had the presence of many guests from the diplomatic force as, also, Brazilian governmental authorities and members of the society of Brasília. They were all enchanted with the soothing and, yet, expressive art from India. |
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| The full "Sala Martins Penna" had an amazing crowd. |
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| THE GUIDE congratulates the Embassy of India for its Republic Day! |
