Bhuoomi pranaam

Thari               kita               dhi            dhala
anga                tath               dha            -
tath                 dha                thaka        dha
tath                 dha                thaka        dha
tath                 dha                thaka        dha
tha                  dhomtha         kadthak    gadhiin
dhin                thinakadhini    tha          


Sabhapranaam

(Dhai                -                      Dhai              -
Thadhi             kidathaka         dhai              -     2)
Dhai                 dhai                 thadhi            kidathaka
dhai                  dhai                dhai                dhai
thadhi               kidathaka        dhai                dhai
(Dhinda              Atha               atha                dhinda  (3)
dhinda               atha                tha                 dhai - 2)
thinkthere kitethaka nathere kitethaka
(tha                     thomtha           thai               kitathaka- 2)
tha                     thomtha             thai
kidatha dhai kidatha dhai
kidathaka
dinna kidathaka (4)
dheigida             dhinda                kite               thaka
thaka                   -                     gadhi               gine
tha                      -                      kitetha             gadhigine (3)
thaathomtha
kidathaka gadhigine dha (3)

Tripathaka hasta viniyoga

Mukute - crown
Vrikshabhaveshu - tree
Vajre - lightning
thadaravasave -
kethaki kusume -
deepe - lamp
vanhi jwaala - fire
vijrumbane -
kabothe - pigeon
pathralekhaayam - writing a letter
baanardhe - arrow shooting
parivarthane - change difference
yujyanthe thipathakoyam kathito bharatotamiyihi 

Being in a Nrityagram Choreography

there is the gurukul and the surrounding area that makes you want to stay there forever - and the trepidation i feel as i enter anticipating the yelling that's definitely coming at me in that day's class - its somewhat like being in an abusive relationship - one that i cannot give up. at 40 it really hurts to see how much the body has forgotten or probably never even learnt - the difference being aware of what muscles i was using to hold a particular pose, can make to that pose - how i could feel perfect but there is still another level of corrections that there is. i am not giving up. how feeling like a tree yourself can actually make the audience believe you are a tree - how there is no one among the 13 of us on stage that is not being seen at any point of time - "not on my stage" - how this will NOT do - how every single person is uma putra even if someone else is depicting uma and putra - how thandava priya putra is absolutely different from that - how much making a connection with the person next to you can actually help you balance your own pose - how none of this makes any sense unless you are there, going through it yourself!!  

Chowk 5.3

Extend both hands together in front of chest as if receiving something, pull hands towards chest - then goes to chowk position.
leg - half stretch right leg in front in the same line as a chowk leg (closer if needed but not wider from a chowk position) - bring left leg to same level as the right leg in chowk, right tap at chowk, left tap at chowk, right tap at chowk.
Bol - dhai kidathaka dha thunna - kidathaka dhai dha thunna