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A group of 21 students from the Colgate University, New York, are all set to present a showcase of South Indian classical and folk arts this week, in Mylapore.
The 'India Study Group' had signed up for a semester's study in India and the students have been training in some of the South Indian artforms in Chennai, over the past four months. Their final presentation is scheduled on December 8 and 9, 2005, at 6 pm at Raga Sudha Hall, Mylapore, Chennai. Their presentation will feature 'Dollu Kunitha' (drums of Karnataka), Kalaripayattu, Carnatic vocal, veena, mridangam, Bharatanatyam, folk songs and dances, Kavadi, Horse dance, Peacock dance and a Therukoothu of the 'Keechaka Vadham'. In October, the students were off to Purisai to train in Therukoothu and in November, they travelled to Kalia Thular, a village near Thanjavur to learn folk music and dance. In Chennai, the students trained in Bharatanatyam at Prof. Sudharani Raghupathy's institution, Shree Bharatalaya in Mylapore, Carnatic vocal and veena from Rajalakshmi Narayanan, yoga from Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, mridangam from Govind, Sanskrit from K.S. Balasubramaniam of the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, Philosophy from R. Balasubramaniam, Kalaripayattu from Shahji and Batik (the art of painting on cloth) from J.J. Jagaraj. | ||||