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.