The two artists Parvathy Vijayan Roshini (photo) and Anju Jacob will give a traditional Keralite performance, through song and dance. Snacks and soft drinks will be served after the performance. The event is jointly organised by SASNET and Theatre Sagohuset. No entrance fee. Venue: Teater Sagohuset Revingegatan 8, Lund. Register your participation in advance to lars [dot] eklund [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se. 

The dance which performed by Parvathy is “Mohiniyattam”, the classical dance form of Kerala, which was taught to her by the “guru” (teacher) Aswathy Nair, who herself is an exponent of Mohiniyattam. Parvathy describes dance to be like a prayer to God which gives peace and pleasure to my mind. Mohiniyattam is a very graceful form of dance with gentle and swaying body movements meant to be performed by women. The name itself says it as ‘the dance by beautiful women’, ‘Mohini’ means beautiful women and ‘aatam’ means dance movements. 

Anju and Pavathy are students of Journalism at Kerala University in Thiruvananthapuram, currently being exchange students at the Dept. of  Communication and Media (KOM) at Lund University through a Linnaeus Palme collaboration project with their department at University of Kerala. SASNET has been instrumental in this ongoing Linnaeus Palme programme.