Nava Pallava Dance performance on 18th August 2007 (artists Sharanya, Priyamvda & Sukanya Datta)Kuchipudi like any other art form needs to be nurtured through the near activist zeal of its practitioners. For instance, Vijaya Prasad, one of the most prominent exponent of Kuchipudi from Maharashtra took up the issue of a wrong information in the school text books about Kuchipudi having originated form Tanjore Tamil Nadu and got the government to correct the school text book.
Many of the prominent artists have written books on the subject, published papers and even done their phds devoted to the subject. Most also regularly visits temples associated with the art form to study the sculptures and try to incorporate the themes in their presentations. There are others who delve deep into the India epic and folklore to isolate stories and themes to embellish their presentations. Some more look at the music related to Kuchipudi and try to ferret out rare renderings suited to the rendering of the dance form. There are yet others who try to blend the dance with other popular dances from the classical order to find the amalgam of beauty and expression of this rare art form.
Numerous ballets, songs, dance competitions, dance expositions, temple dances and other public performances are taking place in Kuchipudi around the world as the audience in support of this dance form keeps growing in sheer size and also quality.
Every year dance festivals are sponsored by the Government of India’s Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). ICCR also supports the artists from all forms of art and a regular calander of events are brought out by the council every year, the details of which can be had by linking to the council’s website. If you want to be a regular to ICCR’s programme the best thing you can do is become a “friend” of ICCR by joining their “Friends of ICCR Forum” by paying a nominal life membership of Rs 3000 per couple or Rs 2000 for an individual. Considering the kind of massive dose of entertainment information you would receive every year, the membership is worth every rupee. Follow this link provided by http://education.vsnl.com/ for an application form of ICCR friendship forum.
ICCR also brings out books, publications and multimedia CDs on various art forms and don’t look for any books on dance from ICCR you will not find one! If there were any, one cant find it as the search option on the site does not yield anything. It just doesn’t work. Someone should immediate remove this glitch from the site otherwise it could be quite embarrassing. ICCR has a calander of events link under the happenings section and the calendar has the latest month’s events August 2007.
Capturing the nuances and the rare work of the grand artists is no easy task even though the internet has given the tools for research to do the task. More awareness of the use of Internet and the facility to put together the available knowledge and offer it to the wider audience—whether they practice the art or mere rasikas—is a challenging task. Also the delicate question of intellectual property right of whether a rare information belongs to a website or can it be propagated to a wider audience, ascribing to the original website of course, is a moot question.
I am taking the stand that so long as the source of the information is identified anyone is free to distribute the information based on their interpretation and use of the information as after all, knowledge is free so long as it has been put in the public domain. We will keep growing this blog!
Many of the prominent artists have written books on the subject, published papers and even done their phds devoted to the subject. Most also regularly visits temples associated with the art form to study the sculptures and try to incorporate the themes in their presentations. There are others who delve deep into the India epic and folklore to isolate stories and themes to embellish their presentations. Some more look at the music related to Kuchipudi and try to ferret out rare renderings suited to the rendering of the dance form. There are yet others who try to blend the dance with other popular dances from the classical order to find the amalgam of beauty and expression of this rare art form.
Numerous ballets, songs, dance competitions, dance expositions, temple dances and other public performances are taking place in Kuchipudi around the world as the audience in support of this dance form keeps growing in sheer size and also quality.
Every year dance festivals are sponsored by the Government of India’s Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). ICCR also supports the artists from all forms of art and a regular calander of events are brought out by the council every year, the details of which can be had by linking to the council’s website. If you want to be a regular to ICCR’s programme the best thing you can do is become a “friend” of ICCR by joining their “Friends of ICCR Forum” by paying a nominal life membership of Rs 3000 per couple or Rs 2000 for an individual. Considering the kind of massive dose of entertainment information you would receive every year, the membership is worth every rupee. Follow this link provided by http://education.vsnl.com/ for an application form of ICCR friendship forum.
ICCR also brings out books, publications and multimedia CDs on various art forms and don’t look for any books on dance from ICCR you will not find one! If there were any, one cant find it as the search option on the site does not yield anything. It just doesn’t work. Someone should immediate remove this glitch from the site otherwise it could be quite embarrassing. ICCR has a calander of events link under the happenings section and the calendar has the latest month’s events August 2007.
Capturing the nuances and the rare work of the grand artists is no easy task even though the internet has given the tools for research to do the task. More awareness of the use of Internet and the facility to put together the available knowledge and offer it to the wider audience—whether they practice the art or mere rasikas—is a challenging task. Also the delicate question of intellectual property right of whether a rare information belongs to a website or can it be propagated to a wider audience, ascribing to the original website of course, is a moot question.
I am taking the stand that so long as the source of the information is identified anyone is free to distribute the information based on their interpretation and use of the information as after all, knowledge is free so long as it has been put in the public domain. We will keep growing this blog!
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1 comment:
very nice pic .............
i guess they r proffessional.....
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