Program: Kuchipudi Rangapravesam
Subject
Amoolya Narayanan
Date2009
MediumPaper
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections
CopyrightIn Copyright
Object number2015.196.27.1
DescriptionProgram for Rangapravesam, undated.
This event was a required public presentation of the Year 11 Southern New England Apprenticeship Program team in Kuchipudi Dance. Teaching artist Sumithira Anand with apprentice Amoolya Narayanan.
NotesSubject Note: The Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program is a CCHAP initiative since 1997 that fosters the sharing of community-based traditional (folk) artistic skills through the apprenticeship learning model of regular, intensive, one-on-one teaching by a skilled mentor artist to a student/apprentice. The program pairs master artists from RI, MA, or CT with apprentices from one of the other states, as a way to knit together members of the same community or group across state lines. Teaching and learning traditional arts help to sustain cultural expressions that are central to a community, while also strengthening festivals, arts activities and events when master/apprentice artists perform or demonstrate results of their cooperative learning to public audiences. The Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program at the Connecticut Historical Society manages the program in collaboration with the Folk Arts Program at the Massachusetts Cultural Council and independent folklorist Winifred Lambrecht who has a deep knowledge of the folk arts landscape of Rhode Island. Primary funding for the program comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, with support also from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Institute for Community Research, and the Connecticut Historical Society.This event was a required public presentation of the Year 11 Southern New England Apprenticeship Program team in Kuchipudi Dance. Teaching artist Sumithira Anand with apprentice Amoolya Narayanan.
Subject Note: The Year 11 Indian dance apprenticeship in kuchipudi resulted in a professional performance by student Amoolya Narayanan, Connecticut, with musical leadership from mentor Sumithira Anand from Massachusetts. The presentation also raised funds for CT Tamil Sangam. The Program’s four Indian dance apprenticeships have been very well supported by the Indian and South Indian communities in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Audiences for the performances number around 300 each, and are publicized in Indian community papers across the region, demonstrating the Program goal of linking communities across the southern New England states.
Additional audio, video, and photographic materials exist in the archive relating to these artists.
Cataloging Note: This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-245929-OMS-20.
Status
Not on view
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