Nrityageet: Creativity and innovation over three generations

An earlier Nrityageet (SN file photo)

Nrityageet is “a pure dance theatre production reflecting the creativity and innovation of three generations of dancers, choreographers and producers.”  This is how the director Seeta Shah Roath describes the production as she introduced the performance in the Programme Notes of Nrityageet 32 at the National Cultural Centre.  In that brief reference she manages to capture elements of the history of not only her own production, but of the current state of contemporary dance performance in Guyana.

This is because in performing its 32nd annual programme of choreographies in a full dance theatre presentation, it was continuing the achievement in Guyana of a substantial dance theatre which began its development on this current path around the same time that Nrityageet was founded.  Presently Guyana