CHENNAI, 20th November 2025: The Trinity Arts Festival 2025 is set to host a captivating Bharatanatyam presentation, ‘The Sacred Trinity,’ by the distinguished dancer, Dr Jagyaseni Chatterjee. The elegant performance is scheduled on 22nd November 2025, at RR Sabha Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Hall, Mylapore. The 50-minute recital promises to be a deeply immersive journey into the compositions of the revered Carnatic Trinity.
Dr Jagyaseni Chatterjee, a Bengali artist who has established a distinctive presence in the Bharatanatyam landscape over the last decade, is celebrated for her refined abhinaya and intellectual engagement with classical texts and history. Her work is characterised by a commitment to rigorous research, bringing cultural depth and scholarly precision to the classical idiom she has embraced with conviction.
‘The Sacred Trinity’ explores the luminous world of Carnatic music’s foundational composers—Muthuswami Dikshitar, Syama Sastry, and Saint Tyagaraja. Through the expressive language of Bharatanatyam, Dr Chatterjee will interpret the spiritual core of their masterpieces. The performance will feature Dikshitar’s majestic, meditative ‘Vande Meenakshi’; Syama Sastri’s deeply devotional compositions dedicated to Kamakshi; and Saint Tyagaraja’s bhakti-soaked outpourings to Lord Rama, forming the thematic and musical spine of the event.
The performance is ideated and choreographed by the veteran artist Dr Lakshmi Ramaswamy, Tamil Nadu State Awardee, Top Grade Artist of Doordarshan, Senior Fellowship Ministry of Culture, Fulbright Fellow, who will also lead the recital with Nattuvangam. The stellar ‘Live Orchestra’ features: Nattuvangam by Dr Lakshmi Ramaswamy, Vocalist Sai Sabapathy, Mridangam artist Veda Krishna Ram, Violinist Ananthakrishnan, and Flautist D. Yakeswaran.
This presentation, running from 6:00 PM to 6:50 PM, is an essential offering for connoisseurs of classical arts, promising an evening of cultural depth, artistic introspection, and a profound homage to three musical giants through the lens of Bharatanatyam.
About Jagyaseni
Jagyaseni Chatterjee is a Calcutta born, Chennai based Bharatanatyam artiste, writer, researcher and educator and a senior disciple of Dr Lakshmi Ramaswamy. With over two decades of experience, she brings together performance, pedagogy, cultural research and writing in a deeply interdisciplinary manner.
A, B-High graded artiste of Doordarshan, an Empanelled artist of South Zone Cultural Centre, Dr Jagyaseni Chatterjee is a recipient of Nadanamamani from Karthik Fine Arts, Special Commendation Award from Bharat Kalachar, Best Dancer Award from Sri Parthasarathy Sabha, Natya Ratna from Trinity and several other notable titles. A Junior Fellowship holder from the Ministry of Culture, she is the author of ‘Learn dance with Suki’ published by GIRI Trading Agency Pvt. Ltd.
Jagyaseni is also Repertory Member and a Faculty at Dr Lakshmi Ramaswamy’s Sri Mudhraalaya and writes for Sruti Magazine.
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