The 11th Goa arts and literary festival at the International Centre in Goa
featured the multi talented singer/actor/dancer/film maker Devika Bhise on the
20th of December.
All of 20 years, New York based Devika has already come a long way acting in a
Hollywood Uma Thurman and Colin Firth-starrer 'The Accidental Husband' besides
performing in musicals like Les Miserables, Little Shop of Horrors and T.S.
Eliot’s The Cocktail Party at places like Lincoln Center and The Metropolitan
Museum of Art. She is a trained Indian classical singer and dancer and has been
studying piano and jazz vocals in New York. Devika is a regular visitor to Goa
and lives in a Charles Correa designed sea-front home that could easily be one
of the best addresses in Dona Paula. A home that's built to be an ideal abode
for an artist, small wonder since she comes from a lineage of accomplished
Indian classical dancers and is the daughter of the world renowned Bharat
Natyam dancer Swati Bhise.
Devika's interest in jazz arose early in life being brought up in the big apple
where a walk on the street takes one through a series of amazing jazz
performances on the street itself. Her background in Indian classical music
helped her pick up the nuances of jazz improvisation with ease and her acting
and dancing experience makes her a natural onstage. Devika took the stage with
Goa's premier jazz band 'Jazz Junction' made up of Xavier Peres on keyboards,
Colin D'Cruz on bass and Lester Godinho on drums with visiting virtuoso Ilia
Matveev on saxophone. Needless to say the concert was one that could easily
have taken place anywhere in the world with the high performance standard.
Devika delivered with an act that thrilled and excited the audience ending with
huge calls for encores that she obliged three times over.
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