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A
young up coming stage technician in arts called
GAURI PADIYAR
She is quite tall,
5.5 feet. Children
have to look up to see her and get to know what she says, her
instructions to the little group of dancers on a floor in a studio or on
a stage with backscores, reverberating with music to inspire the legs
and turn their eyes around or show the gestures of their small hands.
She inspires them to dance and may dance her self or just direct them to
dance from within.
Dance has a body language in which eyes and
expressions count. Only born artistes and those who are dedicated
to dancing may know what it implies. Others may get tired or uneasy;
they cannot stare on a stage, as soul express through the body ever so
subtly and in a sound of silence, of pretty feelings, of nine types of
mood or essences like anger or shyness or a plea.
The singer is in the background in person or in a record but the
dancer is quite there as an audience watches. It is a tough job of self
-expression by mudras (signs) and hidden feelings of ecstasy or
dissatisfaction. Whether ancient or modern, a dance is the same, it is
silent, expressive, has a musical background, all this is palpably
present when Gauri Padiyar dances or teaches children.
A number of film stars
visited Gauri at her home, such as character actor
Kari Basavaiyya and her mother is always with her.
Born in a traditional Brahmin family of
non-dancers, she insisted on learning dancing to the accompaniment of
music. Her parents conceded and spent lavishly on her young age hobbies
in dancing, modelling and stage craft. She is one among many who do not
want to be in films but on stage, as she has enough money and does not
have to fix a fee.
Gauri is
fond of little flowers or children and this love transmits in the
collection of many dolls when she is at home without children
She lets the pupils of young age in a batch to
go to Nantoor and entertain Old Age Home inmates for a couple of hours
and lighten their hearts. She has modelled for festivals, dresses and on
other occasions quite ably. She could be a Sushmitha Sen, so tall and
single-mined. But she is also married to Suhas Rao at 21.
Born in 1985, she is just out of teens, a graduate in arts (BA)
with music,dance and History from Sandesh College of Fine
Arts, Mangalore and has had her grounding
in the Ocean Kids Dance Institutes under Ravi &
Vinod Sequeira , who himself a dedicated dancer
since1989.
Gauri knows the various
dance forms like Bharatanatya, she performed Kathak and recognises all
the dance forms. from South Indian
teachers. For western dance forms such as Break, Rap, Jazz, Jive, Cha
Cha Cha,( free style and Folk) Gauri has taken a prominent role in the tours, of the Ocean
Kids all over India successfully. In whichever dancing role or
modeling stint she has emerged in centre as a twinkling star, to the
wonder of viewers.
Her husband Suhas Rao who
works in an office in Mangalore lets her run her dance class in Kudroli,
where she arrives at 6 AM from Attavara, and between the intervals,
works till 8-30 PM. Her parents and his parents, and Suhas himself, have
been helpful in nourishing her dancing skills.
She has no ambitions, so
no Cinema roles for her like Deepika Padukone, or TV/Radio shows like
Aparna (both Bangaloreans like her.) She has returned to Mangalore and
has a rigid working time table that takes care of nearly 50 children
below 16 years, and 20 women above 30 years in dancing Aerobics for different
reasons. She has perhaps done drama roles at schools, but she could
blossom into an attractive model with colourful costumes and as a dance
director or choreographer with stories and specific art episodes. She
needs careful nurturing still, as too young a girl on the
threshold of stagecraft. Good Luck!
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