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Tradition and innovation in Yaksagana: Kota Shivarama Karanth and Keremane Shambhu Hedge

Author: Bapat, Guru Rao

Keywords: Folk dance, Indic
Bharata natyam

Issue Date: 1999

Publisher: Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi

Description: Present study is about the Tradition and Innovation in Yaksagana special reference to Kota Shivarama Karanth and Keremane Shambhu Hegde. Yaksagana is a dance theatre of Karnataka with a history of at least five hundred years. Yaksagana also underwent a process of change like Bharatanatyam or Kathakali in the first half of this century but only in a limited sense. Yaksagana had always been perform in the open air with commercialization. It is in such a context that the efforts of people like ShivaramaKaranth and Shambhu Hegde become important. Both of them have experimented with the form. But they have been equally keen to retain what they considered were significant features of the Yaksagana tradition. It is also interesting to note that in their artistic work they took different directions. The efforts of both these artists become significant as they point to the future development of this dance theatre.

Source: Sangeet Natak Akademi

Type: Article

Received From: Sangeet Natak Akademi


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dc.contributor.author Bapat, Guru Rao
dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-10T22:16:44Z
dc.date.available 2017-07-10T22:16:44Z
dc.date.issued 1999
dc.description.abstract Present study is about the Tradition and Innovation in Yaksagana special reference to Kota Shivarama Karanth and Keremane Shambhu Hegde. Yaksagana is a dance theatre of Karnataka with a history of at least five hundred years. Yaksagana also underwent a process of change like Bharatanatyam or Kathakali in the first half of this century but only in a limited sense. Yaksagana had always been perform in the open air with commercialization. It is in such a context that the efforts of people like ShivaramaKaranth and Shambhu Hegde become important. Both of them have experimented with the form. But they have been equally keen to retain what they considered were significant features of the Yaksagana tradition. It is also interesting to note that in their artistic work they took different directions. The efforts of both these artists become significant as they point to the future development of this dance theatre.
dc.source Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.format.extent 3-15p.
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
dc.subject Folk dance, Indic
Bharata natyam
dc.type Article
dc.identifier.issuenumber 133-134
dc.format.medium text
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DC Field Value
dc.contributor.author Bapat, Guru Rao
dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-10T22:16:44Z
dc.date.available 2017-07-10T22:16:44Z
dc.date.issued 1999
dc.description.abstract Present study is about the Tradition and Innovation in Yaksagana special reference to Kota Shivarama Karanth and Keremane Shambhu Hegde. Yaksagana is a dance theatre of Karnataka with a history of at least five hundred years. Yaksagana also underwent a process of change like Bharatanatyam or Kathakali in the first half of this century but only in a limited sense. Yaksagana had always been perform in the open air with commercialization. It is in such a context that the efforts of people like ShivaramaKaranth and Shambhu Hegde become important. Both of them have experimented with the form. But they have been equally keen to retain what they considered were significant features of the Yaksagana tradition. It is also interesting to note that in their artistic work they took different directions. The efforts of both these artists become significant as they point to the future development of this dance theatre.
dc.source Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.format.extent 3-15p.
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
dc.subject Folk dance, Indic
Bharata natyam
dc.type Article
dc.identifier.issuenumber 133-134
dc.format.medium text
application/pdf