Vidya Bhavani Suresh
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Many of India’s traditional performing arts are vibrant and colourful, offering the viewer of spectacular visual experience. In this aesthetic book, we capture Ottanthullal. Dance and enactment are aptly fused to create a brilliant effect in Ottanthullal, which is a presentation of preset texts set to tune. Kalyana Sougandigam is one of the most famous presentations. Here, Bheema meets Hanuman disguised as an old monkey and fails to recognize his brother. ...
Kathakali is very elaborate, specific and well defined in its make-up technique and costume designing. Tremendous importance is attached to facial expressions and hand gestures. This classical form is spectacular, colourful, exaggerated and larger-than life. Here, each artiste plays a specific role. Kathakali has different character types--hero, anti-hero, villain, good man etc. Each character type has a different face colour, face attachment (chutti), crown and ...
If the dancer is dressed in arresting Kanchipuram or Dharmavaram silks. If subdued temple jewellery embellish her features, if the crisp jathi patterns uttered by the nattuvanar add tempo to the performance, you are surely watching a Bharatanatyam performance. Till about half a century ago, this classical dance style of Tamil Nadu was called Sadir and had limited acceptance in society. It was performed by devadasis as part of temple worship and also performed in ...
Carnatic Music has a very rich collection of compositions created by innumerable composers over the years. Present-day composers keep enriching this list with new compositions. And this makes the situation extremely ticklish. Even an inadvertent omission of one or two names here and there will send wrong signals leading people to think that it might have been deliberate! Hence, in the dictionary segment we have avoided allotting individual entries to all ...
The term Carnatic Music sounds familiar to many, yet, for most people, the familiarity stops there. The terms Raga and Thala are known but not what they exactly stand for. This is exactly where this title comes handy. This book introduces the reader to all aspects of Carnatic Music in an extremely easy-to-understand style with numerous examples. The book takes the reader step-by-step through all concepts, giving sufficient comfort level to grasp each idea in its ...