New Topics on Stagebuzz Ezine for February 2011 Issue
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Gender Context
A Study of the Female Performers of Nautanki
Women, explains Gauri Nilakantan, have always been performers in India and Pakistan since the ancient times. The antecedents to dancing girls and courtesans go back to early ages. Statues of the Indus Valley civilization (3000-1500 B.C.) show strong associations with music and dance. A bronze figurine of a dancing girl was unearthed in the ruins of Mohenjadaro, in Pakistan, that shows the popularity of performing arts in the Indus Valley amongst females. Read More...
Persistence Resistance Fest 2011
Documentaries Never Seen Before in India
For the fourth year in a row, Magic Lantern Foundation (MLF) in collaboration with the India International Centre (IIC) presents Persistence Resistance: Edge of Visual Narrative, a festival of documentary cinema from India and the world, from February 7-10, 2011. Persistence Resistance: Edge of Visual The festival which brings together 80-odd films to create a cinema space that celebrates the diverse and nature of documentary films today. The attempt is to change the popular perception that documentary films are boring and to create a public opinion about documentary cinema in India. Read More...
Documentary Packages and List of Films to be screened
Book Mark
Wisdom Tree goes down the memory lane with Sati Sahni's ‘Nehru's Kashmir'
Rare photographs of one of the world’s tallest statesmen has been brought to life in the book “Nehru's Kashmir” by lensman Sati Sahni published by Wisdom Tree. The book, explains B.B Nagpal, which has a captivating montage of this charismatic world leader, was released earlier in the week by Dr. Farooq Abdullah – Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy and son of Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah, and Dr Karan Singh, Sadr-i-Riyasat of Jammu and Kashmir from 1949 right up to Nehru's passing away on 27 May 1964
Bharangam 13
The Park
Ravindra Tripathy's Daily Diary
There are three benches in 'The Park', so there should be no problem for separate and independent spaces for them. But the problem starts when all of them want a particular bench for themselves. No one wants to leave his preferred bench. They argue and fight over their `rights’. The play starts as a comedy but slowly and gradually it becomes serious. Read More...
Film Festival gives a
Wake up Call
The Flash Point Film festival will screen in New Delhi from January 20-22nd. Gargi Sen, Festival Director, who will be organizing the Delhi screenings says “The impulse to question, criticise and resist is varied but the films also fundamentally present the spirit of the change makers and their abilities to paint a future for mankind." Read More...
In This Issue StageBuzz welcomes two new writers in its fold:
Station Director, AIR, Delhi
and
Senior Film and Theatre Critic
Coming Soon on StageBuzz
Starting this year
Gouri Nilakantan will run
Kindermatics Korner
a monthly column on Children's Theatre