Should I ask if dancers know what the navarasas are? Just kidding. As much as navarasas are part and parcel of BN training and are evergreen topics to discuss, these days we need quick-fix solutions of how to get that bhava correct to express the rasa. Like, someone to emulate and get it right, Isn’t it? Look nowhere else, than to the 44th and current President of the United States, Barack Obama. Thanks to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, we can feast on the latest nine types of emotions of US President, not seen before! 🙂 As Jimmy Fallon says, he has an expressive face, has thousands of different facial expressions, and one for each occasion.
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Bharathanatyam and the worldwide web 