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  title info:
    title: Languages of sound & movement
    sub title: music & dance of India
    part name: Of beauty & deities
  title info:
    title: Of beauty & deities
    sub title: music & dance of India
  title info:
    title: Of beauty and deities
    sub title: music and dance of India
  name:
    name part: Ma, Eve A.
    role:
      role term: director,
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Kalanjali (Dance company)
    role:
      role term: performer.
  name:
    name part: Palomino Productions
    role:
      role term: production company.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Dance films
  genre: Educational television programs
  genre: Dance films.
  genre: Educational television programs.
  genre: Films de danse.
  genre: Émissions éducatives télévisées.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (57 minutes)
  abstract: Part of Eve A. Ma's series about world music and dance, "Of Beauty & Deities" explores the music and dance of southern India, especially the classical "bhatatanatyam." The hour-long documentary includes professional level performance, interviews, and a host's narrative. Working through the group "Kalanjali: Dances of India," we are treated to solo as well as group dance performances, a purely musical number, plus explanations of the musical instruments, the meaning of the dances, and more. Filmed in a studio in California (Contra Costa Television, as supported by AC5 - Arts & Culture Commission of Contra Costa County), the solo dancer and the musicians were brought over from India. The dancers in the group are mostly people of Indian heritage, part of the Indian diaspora. The performers - both those from India and those from California - come from a group called "Kalanjali: Dances of India" which teaches in both southern India and northern California. Its artistic directors when we created this documentary were K.P. Kunhiraman and his wife, Katherine Kunhiraman. K.P. Kunhiraman, a master of kathakali as well as bharatanatyam, has since passed away. Bharatanatyam, the focus of the documentary, comes out of the Hindu tradition although in modern times, it has opened itself up to anyone, no matter what their religious tradition (or lack of same). The dances are hymns to and stories about the Hindu gods. Dance movements are a form of sign language (and we have "translated" these movements in one of the dances). It is a rigorous dance form that takes years to learn. The musicians, from singer Sasidaran to the flutist, the percussionist and the violinist (a bow to modern music) are all highly trained and well-known in their native India. The documentary contains one purely musical number so that viewers may enjoy this classical southern Indian, Karnatan, music. And the documentary contains one folk dance, this one from the central Indian state of Orissa. As artistic direc…
  table of contents: Dance to mother earth -- Tillana -- Kirtanam dance honoring Lord Krishna -- Musical Kirtanam -- Folk dance from Orissa.
  target audience: adult
  note: producer, Eve A. Ma ; director, Eve A. Ma ; Palomino Productions.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed April 25, 2019).
  note: Host & treatment, Eve A. Ma ; performers, Kalanjali: Dances of India.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    topic: Dance
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Dance
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Bharata natyam
  subject:
    topic: Danse
    geographic: Inde
  subject:
    topic: Danse
    topic: Aspect religieux
  subject:
    topic: Bhārata-nāṭya
  subject:
    topic: Bharata natyam
  subject:
    topic: Dance
  subject:
    topic: Dance
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    geographic: India
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Languages of sound & movement (Television program)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 190425
    record change date: 20260324202532.1
    record identifier: in00005587145
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng