Some historical snippets of BN – Part 12 – The western gaze
If you have given BN performance to an uninitiated audiences either in India or abroad, the following might resonate with you. Before or after the performance, most audience are quite […]
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Who are the dancers in the Bharhut sculpture?
Couple of posts ago, I had blogged about the Dr. Francis W Prichett and her amazing collection of nautch/dance photographs. One among the photographs listed was “The Dance of the […]
Some historical snippets of BN – Part 10 – Bharata Natya
Finally, feels good to be back on track with the Historical snippets series. Oh, yeah there is more than 9 parts to it! Most books/paper on Bharatanatyam and relating to […]
La Bayadere
I had to post this one before others. Continuing in the theme of ballet that we saw in the previous post. There is a link between one of the famous […]
Vintage Devadasi video and audio
While hearing/reading about Devadasis, their graceful dance and their mellifluous voice, have you ever wondered how they might have danced and how their voice could have been? I mean is […]
Art, Indian aesthetics and why it is important to us?
Recently came across the writings of Shri Aurobindo titled “The National Value of Art”, a series of writings by him for the Karmayogin a century ago (1909-10). During my reading of […]
Shabdam – A discussion
Reproducing a discussion on Shabdam that happened in a Facebook group few months ago. It all started with few questions on Shabdam. 1. How do you define a Shabdam? 2. […]
Do you know Padma?
Do you know Padma? Nah, not Padma Lakshmi, but Pad.ma the online digital video archive? To quote from their website Pad.ma – short for Public Access Digital Media Archive – […]
Talk by Prof. Raghuraman on Koothanool (கூத்தநூல்) – Video
Dancing Celestial, 12th Century, India Image Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Here is the video of the talk (Earlier post) given by Dr. Raghuraman on Koothanool. The talk […]
Talk by Prof. Raghuraman on Koothanool (கூத்தநூல்)
தமிழ்ப் பாரம்பரியம் (Tamil Heritage Trust) presents Kootha-nool (கூத்தநூல்) by Dr S.Raghuraman, Pulavar, MA, M.Phil, M.Ed, PhD When: 5.30PM on Saturday, January 5th, 2013 Where: Vinobha Hall, Thakkar Bapa Vidyalaya, T Nagar, […]
