Sunday, November 08, 2009

Bharathanatyam



Last week my friends at the office introduced me to the traditional Indian form of dance called Bharathanatyam (bah-`rah-ta `na-tee-um). We found some photos and videos on the internet and then practiced some poses. Here is my first attempt.



The second photo shows several of us doing a difficult composite pose. I thought it might be called "a Grecian urn" but we were told by the photographer that we simply looked like sky divers.


If you're thinking it looks like we didn't get much work done that afternoon, you would be right. We were celebrating a 33rd birthday and a beta software release.

1 comment:

Great Grumpy Z. said...

"If you're thinking [that this reader is thinking that] it looks like we didn't get much work done that afternoon" then you are right!

Where was the boss during this afternoon of levity? Grumpy remembers a certain occasion when the OOD (Officer of the Day) came up to our Navy quarters due to some antics performed by Grumpy and the ensuing hoots and raucous laughter.