Filix Fest 2019 – FILIX SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Filix Fest 2019 – Day 2 “Ragas”

In the Indian Tradition, there are sixty-four kinds of Arts, and it is believed that to excel in life children need to be exposed to all of these, our students are regularly introduced to many of these forms and they presented some of them in Filix Fest 2019. Like previous years, this year too, the entire show was conceived, overseen and directed by the renowned danseuse Guru Sharmila Biswas, a very close friend of Nanritam, and was presented under her personal guidance. The first presentation of the 2nd Day of Filix Fest was by students of Standards II to VII who enjoyed singing.

Trained by Guru Srijan Chatterjee , the performers introduced the audience to the Ragas representing the 10 basic “That’s’ or the Parent Scales of North Indian or Hindustani classical music. Filix teachers Deblina Sarkar and Mousumi Banerjee facilitated the training workshops and the performance Filix teacher Saba Parween managed the backstage for this group on the day of the performance.

Filix Fest 2019 – Day 2 “Creative Drums”

Like previous years, this year too, the entire show was conceived, overseen and directed by the renowned danseuse Guru Sharmila Biswas, a very close friend of Nanritam, and was presented under her personal guidance.

The third presentation of Filix Fest was by a band of Filix School Rockstars of Standard II to VII who extracted rhythms from spoons and glasses, plastic and metal buckets, traditional Dhamsa and Madol. The Guru of this group, Dhiman Bhattacharya ensured that no one missed a beat and personally accompanied his band of percussionists on the stage. The recital concluded with the familiar Dhak Beats of Bengal. The backstage for this group was managed by Filix Teacher Surajit Ari.

Filix Fest 2019 – Day 2 Kathak Recital

In the Indian Tradition there are sixty four kinds of Arts, and it is believed that to excel in life children need to be exposed to all of these, our students are regularly introduced to many of these forms and they presented some of them in Filix Fest 2019. Like previous years, this year too, the entire show was conceived, overseen and directed by the renowned danseuse Guru Sharmila Biswas, a very close friend of Nanritam, and was presented under her personal guidance.

The second presentation of the 2nd Day of Filix Fest was by students of Standards II to VII who enjoyed dancing. Trained by Guru Debashree Bhattacharya, the presented a Kathak recital, making our 13 Acre Campus resonate to the collective tinkling of their Gunghoos. Filix teachers Ankita Chattarajj, Aindrala Aindrila Das and Ishita Dey, (none of whom had any exposure to this art form before) had to doubled up both as trainees and trainers in the workshops held by Guru Debashree Bhattacharya for orienting the young performers. Filix teacher Debjani Karmakar managed the backstage for this group performers adroitly.