SRI KRISHNA GANA SABHA
30th Naatya Kala Conference
Maharajapuram Santhanam Road, T.Nagar, Chennai. 17
31st Naatya Kala Conference 2011: 26th to 31st December
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORIES OF TANJAVOOR VADIVELU(Bi-centenary )& VAZHUVOOR RAMAYYA PILLAI ( Centenary)
I have been asked to convene the 30th & 31st Naatya Kala Conference usually held in December along with Art festival season in Chennai. The 31st NKC will be conducted between 26th and 31st December 2011. This year also we are focusing , on the Bhaarateeya Naatya Sampradaaya (classical Indian performing arts), which should throw more light and deeper insight into the Abhyaasa Sampradaaya (evolutionary developments in the last century) culminating in today’s repertoire and presentations. So the theme title for this year’s NKC is ABHYAASA-SAMPRADAAYA. ( Known and less known traditions of performing arts.(Naatya). Having very successfully conducting the lecture-demonstrations of
Bharatanaatyam, Kathakali, Kuchipudi-Naatya, Oddissi-naatya and Kathak-naatya last year, this year we hope to have the deliberations & demonstrations of Manipuri Naatya, Mohiniaattam, Koodiaattam, Chow Nartana of three distinct styles from Orissa & Bengal. Hope to make the lec-dems more educative and practical oriented to enhance the quality of appreciation for these art forms, This should benefit not only the general audience, students, connoisseurs but also the critics and writers on performing arts subjects to improve their general standard of understanding of classical performing arts.
Each day is going to be devoted to one particular style culminating with an open house discussion. WE want to involve only established and specialized Naatya Institutions rather than individualistic representations.
Each day’s presentation will be guided by a great and living legend Achaarya in that particular form of Naatya. So that he or she could trace back the training system from few decades onwards to present day.
Each day’s deliberations and presentations will be recorded (audio and video) for archival purposes.
A tentative schedule is drawn (subject to dates alterations) as under: (Every day 10 am to 12.30 with a 15 mts tea break) First half devoted to Training method & second half repertoire/performance:
26-12-2011 Yakshagana of Karnataka
27-12-2011 Koodiyaattam of Kerala
28-12-2011 Manipuri Nartana of Manipur
29-12-2011 Mohiniaattam of Kerala
30-12-2011 Chow Nartana of Orissa/West Bengal
31-12-2011 Centenarian Naatyaachaarya Vazhuvoor Ramayya Pillai – a special feature on Vazhvoor style of Bharatanaatyam. Living legends pay tribute to the great Achaarya.
For further details please contact me at this address:
Shanta Dhananjayan (Convener Naatya Kala Conference 2010-11)
6, Jeevaratnam Nagar, Adyar, Chennai. 600020
Phone: 044+24911125 Email: bkalanjali@gmail.com / nkc.skgs@gmail.com
Soliciting every one’s help and co-operation for making the 31th Naatya Kala Conference yet another great success and useful to the art enthusiasts around the globe.
Shanta Dhananjayan
