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I ~: e ~n 1 1 E>:>{ (? cut "i ve Boar rJ 2 ") Dece mber 19'53 Annual Er.'DQr'+: of (3 ang e ?t I' a t rJ~ .'\ ', ade< f or t he yea r 1 c 82- 83 1" cop y of th (:" A ~Tll:al R?;,'")rt of :3a ~1g e ':' t N.s t :-iV -D. )~a d2m L for the yea r 195 2 - 8 3 ;. 3 0 L:~ ',c:>ri L(Jr consic: ' '( :l+: :' , ,' an~ a p pr ov a l of the Executive Boa rd. ·T."" \ A N 1 : U ..r'l 1 T:: n f 'l R J:J p \.) R J.. ~ 0 I 0 '4 1" 9 8 2 - .~ U J 'll ~ S A N G E E Tl :rT _4 A K -t1. K D E t":I 1. IT E Vi D E L II I tion y """as set up by Goverrr11e :n; of the prorIlOtion of perfor:-;-, ing arts. 'L':i 8 L's.d ern:i. c _- ~ ~':J . at th e na tional level for the 1J r::Hrc tion cld :cu Ii ., , Indian music; dance and drama; fn:!:' ma:Lntpn8J::o ~ standards of train ing i n the p erio rming ::;.:::..~t3; 1 '-':;::' revivaly pr2servation, documentation anq dis,:;su. 8:" tion of materials relating to various fOLl l' ~- !, :~." __ .'cA./J- .. ing folk and t:rib~:3.1) of music, dCCl.nce and dra!T 8. ?.nd for the recogn i tion and inst i tut iOll 0 f a'l"lards t C'1 on t standing artistes. It also coordinates activi ti Y 3 of State Akademis in the fields of dc,nce y draE13 and mus ic . The highest au thori ty of the .4 1{ademi is its General Council. The :r:xecutive Board, which i. s its govern ing bc)dy 9 is respons ible f or U;s gene1,'al superintendence, direction and control of the affairs of the A kademi. The Akademi runs two institutions y one foI" training, under eminent teachers/gurus of all India standing, in Kathak dance and the other in l'lIaniiJ'J.ri dance, in Delh i and Imphal respectively. The DeIhi institution is called Kathak T~ endra and th2 Imphal institution Jawaharlal Nehru lVIanipur Dance Academy. One of the better-known programmes for the sup port of the performing arts 9 as stated above, is through .1.'ecognition accorded to outstanding perform ing artistes aDd scholars every year. This take'3 the shape of Akademi aWards to selected artis tes of emi nence. There is alSO a provision for 30 life-long II fellowship s. Fellows are clected by me mbE~ ~ of t n e meri tin tbe fields of mus 1c, eta',we a nd d :cac,' 8. or ::; uc h cause of the performing arts t;- lrou g~ ! tl1etx ;') C ;lOL n - · ship, research or original contribution . .:,.nother signiftcant effort to sustaiD ;:~Dd i)rOL20-Ce India! s :1attonal cuI tnTal j.dCDti t y i s by eD c :urag i r: g art.is t io ac tivit ies th rough naticn;::d Ln s ti tions "Jorking iD the fieldS of muuic " dancE' and eLcama by p ro- viding to these institl,tioDs ;'1..dvj.ce and financial sup port L)r training stud.ents, orga.tlising fes tivals and producti on of neVJ plays, daDce-dramas , etc. The Akademi accords high priority to the buil ding up of its arc hives, museum aDd 1 ibrary vYi t :l a vie'.'.' to ensuring preservation of the various art f orms and also with a view to disseminating its rich collections for research and study. The archives comprise tapes, records, photographs, slides, films, booim, museum exhib:Lts e t c, .A gallery of musical instrum en t s! cal- led I Asavari , haS been organised as part of the museum of the Akademi which houses over 250 repres entative pieces, some of them rare, of ~arious groups of IDUS1- cal instruments. There are also several pieces Of colourful masks, head-gears i cos tumes and pU P!-"-Jc ts, reflecting Ind:La's rich tbeatrical he:ritag e \\' Iii.ah have 1 been displayed in a Sep8.Tate gallery, called I Yavan j.ka , The rnuselJ.ITl haS also acquired some 2.~?Te \T; anuscripts, paintings and photographs of sculptures villich are relevant to the trad.ition of 1ndi8.1'1 perform.i.1J g arts 0 '1'he Akademi1s library c ontains some 15,O() Obooks 9 besides hund.reosof journalS, newsp apers and disC3 of III non-Illm Indian and iOTeign music" An importa.nt actj. vity of the A~adem i is the publi~ation of ~lthe~tic litera ture on !nUS ic 1 clanc 2 and dX'3:na. Apart fr·JT[i publishing its own books and Gonographs, the Atadsmi also encourages publication of select e d wo~ks through gra.nts to ;1utbors and instituti·.)Yls, 'I'he Alc8.demi aLoe br ings cut contritute. There arE' countl(Oss forms oi' folk aDcl tribc~1 performing arts 1"'hicb needed r8-·Jj_scovery and careful nurturing? both financially and artistically, fo:~~hey are an i:nportant element of our C'cl~.tur2>1 identity. The Akaclemi despite its rather limited resources, ha.B wade 8 ign ifican t efforts over the years to s eeure the preservation and support of selected raTe forms that are threatened with ?xtinction owing to JiScoLtJ.QUanC 2 after our independence of the kind of su~:portl;lil:Lch had been available to them tY'aditionally through p:cin ces and landed aristocracy. 'I' he forms idcnt j_fj_ed for suppo rt include Chamud iyac 11a Eah:.A l ::re (Haharashtra), Kalasutl'i Bahaulye (jiI8.harashtra) ~ Pavakoothu (l~erala) j Ravanachhaya (Orissa), Bh2.vai (Gujarat) ,3haona \ ~~ '-3sam) Chidavi Ktyal (Rajasthan) 9 H8.acll (J:!Iad11ya Pradesh) 5 Koothu (Kerala), Hanu Neeti Chola H.c.;c\--laraja Natake.YH C!jndhra Pradesh), Bhand Pather ( shmir), Kudiyattam (Kerala) 9 Panc hmu kha Vadya (Tami Inadu) 9 ~C illilarj_ (In- ,-, . (I t t \ T ) I· -" . t \ S t rumen·t ) 9 oarangl \ ns rumen J, -,-,een \ ..LnSl:;rumCIJ 19 Pena (Instrument)? .Alha (Ivlusic) 9 Chcmdaini (Husic), Dhrupad (Music), l':larsia Khani (rlusic) 9 Patua ( \J est Bengal) 9 Ashtapadi (KeraIa) 9 J\ribap2__ la ( Hanipur>, Kavad (Rajasthan), Deodhani (ASSam), Kavadi ChiYl:1U. 1 ( Tamilnadu), Bhag,va.. t Hela Nataka (J:amilnadu) 9 Bp~ yalatE" (Karnataka) • 1\T The Akad em i in recent year s has framed schemes f or i mplemen tation unde r the cur rent F i v e Ye3,r Pl an1 for p r eserva tion and promot i on of puppetr y, ::,S8 i ::: t aD c e to young t heatre workers1 d ev elopmern; of tribal cult u r 9 and the folk perferrri ng arts. ~he p rogrammes undertal,- en d:lring '19).~2 - 83 incJ.udcd fes tivals under t he Scheme of organ i s i.ne; ~ :;lL;i c F ·:.': '3 t iv2.1 s ( 1 ) Ko od iyattam F estiva1 1 (2) National Theatre ~orksh 0 ; on Street Theatre at Bhopal, ( 3) DlJrupad E.C: l r;. ::-:t _~: ,,-:oe·· · jagoi U1ahar ashtra), (4) l<'estival of Trib al iirt3 and Cul ture a t Simla, (5) Katha Ke ertan Festival at Banga l ore, (6) Festival of I li g ht Classical JVius i c io Delhi, ( 7) Fes tival of Naharas p r e sen t ed i n t empl es of Delhi at the time of Janmashtami1 (8) .A 2- day Pestival of /~usic and Dance in conn ection with the All India Subraman i a Bharati C ('~ t enary Celebrati on i n Delhi , ( 9) Kutch l'1al d h3ri Fes tival at Bhuj in collaboration wit h Ind i an Na tion a l Theatre, Bombay, (1 0) l\lal1araj Xal ka Bindad in Kathak Fes tival and ( 11 ) partiaipa :t i on of Festival i n India by the a rtists o f Kathalc Kendra j New Delhi and Jawa harlal Nehru f.1 anipur Danc e Academy, I mphal . In 1981, t he ~~ka d em i a cquired SONY 3/4 inc h v i deo e quipment. Since tnen it haS done c ons iderabl e video docu:nr:?n t:::>. tion wo rk. During the period und cr review of tl-'. ,:; report t he Akademi haS r e corded several festivals i n clud ing Fes t iva l of tribal Nu s ic and Dance at Obra, Festivc:.l of L i gl~t Classical Mus ic a t Delhi in collabor a tion with Gcetika, Dhrupad JI·1ela Fes tiVal at .A mbe;jago i. Another imp ortaD t addition to th e }\ kademi a rc hi v a l coll ect i on is 14 hrs . l o n g v i deo recording of the play '~\shokav aDikamkam; by Shri ~\m manur f.Ta dhava Chakyar a t Irinjala1ruda ( Ke rala) . Besides several othe r l a rge a nd s mall festival s lii:\:c Zonal Folk Theatr e Festi valat Dundlod (Rajasthan) 2.)1d rar e ritualistic forms such as Bboota TT r j_ tya c'.. t U di~'L , . Kananoor and ":impaT in Karnataka v.ere dOOU~ilcnti:::C.. 30 lTIinute docul}i en tary f.ilm on I S'e.l1 a Varn:::1.il! I by Smt. Leela Ramanathan has been me.d ,,' by t , ·:sUni~~. video coverage includes r ecital b7 nayail by Dr.