Arattarangetram Seventh Episode Part II and Part III

[raghu26]

Hi Friends,
Enjoy the seventh episode of Arattarangetram here. In this post you will see the dance history and Devil’s advocate segment.
http://arattarangetram.wordpress.com/20 ... -part-iii/
0:00 – Part II and Part III
0:15 – Raghu’s question to Priya Murle “Can you elaborate on your M.Phil dissertation on the topic of Sadharaikarana and realization of Brahman”
8:00 – Dance is the fifth veda and is divine
12:50 – Dr. Godavari Krishna – Her guide for M.Phil dissertation
Raghu’s segment
13:35 – “Aharya trends in Sadir”
References
•http://thebestofhabibi.com/wp-content/u ... swati1.jpg
•Nautch girls, Hyderabad; a photo by Hooper and Western, 1860′s
•A Nautch Girl [from Ceylon], from Customs of the World, ed. by Walter Hutchinson, London, 1931
•Gentoo dancing girls from Madras, displaying jewellery,” a photo by Nicholas and Curths, 1870
•http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/Glit ... 12679.html
•“Dancing girls of Pondicherry,”1836-45
•Coolie life in India–an operatic performance,” from The Graphic, 1878
•Bharatanatyam – Sunil Kothari 1979
•Women of Pride – Lakshmi Vishwanathan
•Balasaraswati : Her art and life – Douglas Knight
•Dance Dialects of India – Ragini Devi
•Nityasumangali – Saskia C Kersenboon
40:19 – Sudharani Raghupathy’s doordarshan series about Aharya
42:22 – Raj’s question “What was your experiences with Therukoothu? How did it influence your dancing?”
49:00 – Aharya of therukoothu
52:00 – Comparison with Melattur Bhagavatha Mela
55:00 – about Amba Shikandi
Devil’s advocate
57:27 – “Economics of a professional dancer. How does a dancer put up a performance financially? How practically is it viable?”
Topics touched
Teaching and Workshop as a source of income
Professionalism
Orchestra asks Money
Rehearsal
Season is mad, as everybody is tired
Government intervention with December season
Recognition of artists in public
lack of arts management
Stamp of approval from West
Lack of awareness of existing grants by Government of India
pressure on artists
academic pressures on students
are cities culturally aware?
find remedial measures
artists as methods of change
1:03:44 – recounting an anecdote about Sudhrai Raghupathy and Padma Subrahmanyam
1:30:30 – Rapid Fire round with Priya Murle
1:38:00 – Parting thought

[rshankar]

Moderators - Can all the arattarangetram tpics be clubbed into one? Will make for easier searching and reading...Just the Isai Payanam thread that Karthik has started.

[raghu26]

Hi rshankar,
Didn't quite understand by clubbing in one. You mean all the episodes with links so far as one single post or each episode links in one post?
Thanks and Regards,
Arattarangetram team

[rshankar]

Raghu,
I meant having one arattarangetram topic, and each episode as a new post - it is really easy for searching, and reading through in sequence. As an example, check this one out for the 'A Raga's Journey' episodes.

[raghu26]

Hi rshankar,
I see the angle you are coming from. Thanks for explaining. However, I have two issues with that. Maybe due to my ignorance of capabilities of discussion forums.
1. If someone has a point to discuss it is quite important for discussion sake, to know for which episode or segment they are asking or referring about. If I have all of the episodes in a single thread then it becomes unmanageable in the long run. I would like to have this compartmentalized so that any questions/issues raised would be easier from the perspective of episodes.
2. If a new post is added to the single thread, then only few would know the updates on that particular thread. I am not sure if it jumps up higher in the order that is displayed in the Natya forum. As I said, I am not aware of full capabilities of discussion forums, so those who know how to navigate would find things. Others, like me, would resort to google search or click on the username and find all the posts.

Having said all this, I am open to suggestions from Moderators and others so that the episode posts are searchable.
Thanks and Regards,
Raghu