The Mayura Natyanjali offers a grand stage; some 25 / 30 feet wide, grandly decorated and Chennai-based lighting expert Murugan was at the controls this year; bathing the stage and the artistes in mood lighting to suit their recital themes.
The team which hosts this fest is a tight one and its members are on stage and off it every evening.
The hour we spent here we sat through a production of a locally-based dance academy; its 15 plus dancers fleshing out episodes from the lord Shiva tales.
Dancer Archana Narayanamurthy who came on stage to felicitate the dancers spoke, telling the audience of the challenge in producing the dance they had just seen.
The temple, a sprawling one certainly needs like many others better lighting to hold up the amazing architecture and sculptures here.
We stopped at the gallery of the Nayammars alongside one wall, their names fixed in small legends on the wall.
That Sunday evening, the flow of people was thick; the dance takes place in a yard some metres away from the sannidhi and some people chose to head there, sit for some minutes and watch the recitals.
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