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Sivarajah Natarajan

Sivarajah Natarajan a compelling visual artists of the human form where he explored numerous genres of dances including odissi, bharatanatyam, gotipua (boy-dancers of Odisha), Balinese and Javanese court dances, contemporary modern dances and the traditional Malaysian theatre forms of makyong, menora and main petri. As a visual artist, Sivarajah interpreted the tension between the ecstasy and energy of movement couched within the divine madness of the dancer’s spirit in his emotional outbursts. In his capacity as lighting designer in some of the world’s major theatres, Sivarajah paints eloquently with his lights. He is no longer dealing with the human form caught in the ecstasy of dance – a subject that has been his forte but now in the realm of a much more complex subject of expressing his compassion of the need for a common ground of the two seemingly divergent and disastrous destinies – of human and fate of animals. At the same time, he communicates his message with the flat two-dimensional pop art – an approach that has been the hallmark of his last few series.