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June 01 20142014-06-01June 01 20142014-06-01June 01 20142014-06-01Audience photographed from behind in a hall with dark seats, facing a stage at the far end. On the left, three girls in colourful traditional dresses stand on a red-carpeted platform, one in green, one in a dark-and-white outfit, one in a purple dress with a light top. A large backdrop on the right shows a red-and-green painted scene of a temple tower and gopuram-style structures with a seated figure in the centre. Video screens and a camera on a tripod stand to the side, and a few people in white clothes sit near the stage. Dim purple lighting fills the room.2017-09-26Photograph from the back of a seated audience facing a stage in a hall with red drapes and a grey backdrop. Two dancers in pink and orange costumes perform on stage under spotlights, one with arms raised. A trident leans beside a carved wooden chair with a golden back at stage left. Musicians sit on a raised platform at right, one in a pink shirt playing a drum. A cameraperson in a white dhoti stands at right, and a camera on a tripod is set up near the stage. Audience members in white ritual clothes, with rudraksha malas, sit in rows in the foreground. No person is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance.2018-04-14A female Bharatanatyam dancer performs centre stage on a reflective polished floor, wearing a red blouse and an orange-gold pleated silk costume with gold waist ornaments, and a white flower in her hair. Two large painted deity figures flank a wooden temple-style door, both with multiple arms, one in pink and one in green, with garlands hung across the door. Brass lamp stands line the stage. On the left, musicians sit on a mat playing instruments, one in an orange garment. The scene is a stage arangetram-style performance with a temple backdrop.2014-06-01June 01 20142014-06-01Viewed from behind, a large crowd of seated devotees, many in white and cream clothes and some bare-chested men, faces a stage at an event. In the foreground, several figures in saffron-orange robes stand raising brass oil lamps and ceremonial implements, one holding a lit lamp high. The stage backdrop shows a colourful arched frame with a deity murti or image seated in its centre, surrounded by rows of white-robed participants and flanked by large amber-lit screens and red and magenta curtains. The scene reads as a satsang or ritual aarti before a deity murti. No single figure is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance alone.2018-01-09Two dancers perform a classical Indian dance on a green stage inside a white-draped hall. The dancer on the left wears a royal blue costume with orange trim and white flower hair ornaments; the dancer on the right wears a bright yellow costume with orange border and a long braid decorated with white flowers. Both have arms extended. Seated devotees in white clothes line the floor at left, and a decorated stage behind holds a deity murti, floral garlands and a seated figure in orange robes on a brown chair flanked by golden seats. A tall multicoloured decorated pillar stands at left. Overhead screens and a white ceiling canopy are visible.2010-11-21June 01 20142014-06-01Two female Bharatanatyam dancers perform on a polished stage in front of a shrine backdrop with large painted deity statues. Both wear red and gold silk dance costumes with gold waist belts, layered jewellery, necklaces and white flowers in their hair. Each extends one arm outward in a dance pose. Behind them, multi-armed deity murti statues in pink and teal lighting flank a wooden door framed by flower garlands. Stage lamps sit at the front edge and brass lamps stand at left.2014-06-01Two female Bharatanatyam dancers perform on a polished stage in front of a colourful temple-style backdrop. The dancer on the left wears a red blouse and an orange-red silk skirt with gold border, gold waist belt and a gold pendant necklace, with one arm raised and the other extended. The dancer on the right wears a red blouse and a yellow-orange skirt with a red drape and gold belt, arms outstretched in a similar pose. Behind them stand large painted deity murtis, one in purple light with multiple arms and garlands, and one in green and orange with a crown. Brass lamps stand at the left edge, and white flower garlands hang from the top of the frame. Stage lights are visible at the bottom.2014-06-01