You are Invited - Sunday 15th 2013 3 pm @ Navatman Space NY
Sridhar Shanmugam
Padma shri Dr Sunil Kothari
Presents an illustrated talk on
“Sattriya Nritya’ (Classical dance of Assam)
Madhusmita Bora from Philadelphia will demonstrate the salient features of Sattriya dances
@
Navatman Space
355 7th Avenue suite 206 NY NY 10001
Sunday, 15th September 2013 – 3 pm onwards.
Followed by ‘Tea N Tak’
About:
Sattriya or Sattriya Nritya (Assamese: সত্ৰীয়া নৃত্য), is one among the eight principal classical Indian dance traditions. In the year 2000, the Sattriya dances of Assam received recognition as one of the eight classical dance forms of India.[1] Where as some of the other traditions have been revived in the recent past, Sattriya has remained a living tradition since its creation by the founder of Vaishnavism in Assam, the great saint Srimanta Sankardev, in 15th century Assam.[2]
Sankardev created Sattriya Nritya as an accompaniment to the Ankia Naat (a form of Assamese one-act plays devised by him), which were usually performed in the sattras, as Assam's monasteries are called. As the tradition developed and grew within the sattras, the dance form came to be called Sattriya Nritya.[3] Today, although Sattriya Nritya has emerged from within the confines of the sattras to a much wider recognition, the sattras continue to use the dance form for ritualistic and other purposes for which it was originally created circa 500 years ago.
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