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A stage performance in progress before a large backdrop reading "Anandotsava" beside a portrait labelled with a banner headline. The backdrop shows a smiling man in an orange turban and orange robe. On the stage, about ten performers stand in a row with hands folded in namaste: women in blue and green costumes, a man in green and red, a figure in orange, a white-robed man, a woman in an orange-yellow sari, and children in red and white outfits. At left, a performer in a patterned brown kurta holds a microphone, and musicians sit at the edge of the stage. Audience members in the foreground watch from below a blue skirted platform.

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December 30 20092009-12-30December 30 20092009-12-30A stage performance at an indoor hall with a large backdrop banner showing a smiling man in an orange turban and orange robe, with the word Anandotsava in orange script. A man in a maroon and gold patterned kurta and orange turban stands centre stage speaking into a microphone, flanked by about a dozen young performers in colourful costumes, some in blue, green and red, with hands pressed in anjali. Two men in white and orange clothing stand at the left edge, one in an orange shirt and white dhoti. Audience members sit along the lower foreground beside a blue satin stage skirt, and a white canopy ceiling covers the hall.2009-12-30December 30 20092009-12-30December 30 20092009-12-30December 29 20092009-12-29Evening cultural performance on a raised stage with a turquoise draped front. Dancers in colourful traditional costumes and headdresses perform before a seated audience in the foreground. A large banner behind shows a smiling man in an orange turban and an orange robe, captioned Anandotsava 2010, with the Anandeshvara Devi Divya Brahmotsava subtitle. The dancers include a figure in green and a figure in a white and maroon costume bowing, with others in blue and red saris. A musician sits at the left edge of the stage. The banner portrait is a printed depiction, not a physical person present. Approximately ten performers and a dozen or more seated audience members are visible.2009-12-30A stage performance under a large banner reading "Anandotsava Ānandeśvara Devālaya Brahmotsava 2010", with a portrait on the banner of a smiling man in an orange turban and orange robe. On the stage, a seated performer in a red and gold outfit and yellow turban sits on a dark chair, with two dancers in green and teal costumes with flower hair decorations kneeling in añjali poses on either side. Behind them, a figure in white sits near a small platform with plants. An audience of mostly seated people, many with long braided hair, watches from the foreground in front of a blue draped stage edge.2009-12-30Girls in colourful traditional dance costumes perform on a green-carpeted stage draped with turquoise satin at an indoor Anandotsava event. Dancers wear pink, white, purple, teal and yellow skirts and blouses with flowers in their hair, several with hands folded in anjali mudra. Behind them a large red-orange banner shows a smiling man in an orange turban with a red bindi, beside the word Anandotsava, a subtitle reading Ananda Ishvara Paramashiva Brahmotsava, and a partial year. A small deity murti stands on a white pedestal at right beside potted plants. Seated audience members are visible in the foreground.2009-12-29A dance performance on a stage with a green floor and light blue skirting during the Anandotsava festival. A large red banner behind the stage shows a smiling man in an orange turban and orange robe with a red tilak on his forehead, beside the words "Ānandotsava" and "Ānandeśvara Devalaya Brahmotsava" with the year 2010. About ten dancers in colourful costumes with masks stand in a line, some in yellow, orange and green, while a female dancer in a pink and yellow sari with flower garlands performs at centre. On the right, a seated musical ensemble plays and a deity murti of Krishna stands on a pedestal. Audience members sit on the floor in the foreground, many in saris and salwar kameez, with floor lamps and potted plants on the stage edges.2009-12-29Stage performance at the Ānandotsava event on a green stage with a light blue skirting. A man in an orange saffron robe with yellow-orange cloth wrapped at the waist, and a white headband, stands center with hands folded in namaste while smiling. Around him, about eight young women in traditional Bharatanatyam-style dress in pink, magenta, yellow, teal and blue silk stand with palms pressed together in greeting. A red backdrop with a large portrait of a man in an orange turban and the event title and year is behind them, with a stage monitor at right and a few audience members visible at the bottom edge.2009-12-29Evening cultural performance on a stage with a green floor and turquoise satin skirting. Three female dancers in teal and gold costumes and a white-and-green dress perform classical dance poses. Behind them a large red banner shows a smiling man in a saffron turban and orange robe, with the word Anandotsava and Anandeshwara Devalaya Brahmotsava printed on it. Musicians seated at the right play a veena and percussion. An audience of women in saris and children sits on the floor in the foreground, under a white tented ceiling with fans and a wall of pleated curtains.2009-12-29