Archives: December, 2005

Smt. KALANIDHI NARAYANAN, Releases DVDs & VCDs on Abhinaya & The Invocatory Items

Chennai- 9th Dec – A series of DVDs/VCDs and Audio CDs on Bharatanatyam was launched in a sparkling function held here today.

Smt. Kalanidhi Narayanan, an acclaimed exponent of and the ultimate authority on Abhinaya, an important component of Bharatanatyam released the DVDs and VCDs on Abhinaya and the Invocatory Items. The first copy of the products was received by Mr. Sabaretnam, Director, Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd. Welcoming the gathering that included the glitterati of the Bharatanatyam world, Mr. Sudhakar, CEO, Swathi Soft Solutions apprised…

While we can reasonably assume that prehistoric man danced, our first real knowledge of dance comes with the Pre-Christian Mediterranean civilizations. It is believed that the ancient Chaldeans used dance as education. The Chaldeans who are accredited with the beginnings of astronomy , which they taught by means of great symbolic ballets. [ History of the Dance in Art and Education, Richard Kraus, Prentice-Hall,1969]Ted Shawn writes in his “Dance, We must”, that the entire population would assemble on a certain day on a great saucer shaped plain, and arranging themselves in complicated patterns, to the accompaniment of bronze horns and gongs would reproduce through dance the movements of the stars.(Ted Shawn, Dance We Must(London : Dennis dobson Ltd., 1946, p 16)).