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Program: Ramayanam in Bharathanatyam by Srinidhi Nambirajan

Subject Sridevi Thirumalai

Subject Srinidhi Nambirajan

Date2009 June 6

MediumPaper

ClassificationsInformation Artifacts

Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections

CopyrightIn Copyright

Object number2015.196.36.1

DescriptionProgram: Ramayanam in Bharathanatyam by Srinidhi Nambirajan, June 6, 2009.

The event was a required public presentation of the Year 11 Southern New England Apprenticeship Program team. Teaching artist Sridevi Thirumalai with apprentice Srinidhi Nambirajan.

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.

Biographical Note: Sridevi Thirumalai, a South Indian Bharata Natyam dancer and educator, founded the Natyamani School of Dance in Boston, teaching students and choreographing performances. In Year She mentored student Srinidhi Nambirajan in Bharata Natyam dance. In Year 11 of the Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program she taught Srinidhi Nambirajan, a 15 year old apprentice who performed a story piece from the Ramayanam epic, requiring strong expressive qualities as well as dance technique. At the final presentation, Srinidhi was supported by her mother as singer and a group of excellent musicians led by the master teacher. Srinidhi collaborated with CT Tamil Sangam on the event, raising $3500 for education in South India.

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Cataloging Note: This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-245929-OMS-20.

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