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Nrityagram is India's first modern Gurukul (residential school) for Indian classical dances and an intentional community in the form of a dance village, set up by Odissi dancer Protima Gauri in 1990. [1]

39 relations: Alastair Macaulay, Bamboo musical instruments, Bangalore, Bansuri, Bharatanatyam, Dance, Gerard da Cunha, Guru–shishya tradition, Gurukula, Hesaraghatta Lake, India, Indian classical dance, Indian vernacular architecture, Intentional community, Jennifer Dunning, Joan Acocella, Joyce Theater, Karnataka, Kathak, Kathakali, Kelucharan Mohapatra, Kuchipudi, Lake Manasarovar, Malpa landslide, Manipuri dance, Mohiniyattam, New York City, Odissi, Pithoragarh, Pittsburgh Dance Council, Protima Bedi, Sense, Tehelka, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vasanta Habba, Wikimapia, Woodstock, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

Alastair Macaulay

Alastair Macaulay is the chief dance critic for the New York Times.

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Bamboo musical instruments

Bamboos natural hollow form makes it an obvious choice for many musical instruments, most commonly flutes.

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Bangalore

Bangalore, officially known as Bengaluru, is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Bansuri

A bansuri is a side blown flute found in many parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, and a musical instrument that is common in the North Indian or Hindustani classical music.

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Bharatanatyam

Bharatanatyam (Tamil: "பரதநாட்டியம்"), is a major genre of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Gerard da Cunha

Gerard da Cunha is an Indian architect based in Goa.

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Guru–shishya tradition

The guru–shishya tradition, or parampara ("lineage"), denotes a succession of teachers and disciples in traditional Indian culture and religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and Buddhism (Tibetan and Zen tradition).

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Gurukula

Gurukula (gurukula) was a type of residential schooling system in ancient India with shishya (students) living near or with the guru, in the same house.

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Hesaraghatta Lake

Hesaraghatta Lake is a manmade reservoir located 18 km to the north-west of Bengaluru in Karnataka state, India.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian classical dance

Indian classical dance, or Shastriya Nritya, is an umbrella term for various performance arts rooted in religious Hindu musical theatre styles,, Quote: All of the dances considered to be part of the Indian classical canon (Bharata Natyam, Chhau, Kathak, Kathakali, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, Odissi, Sattriya and Yakshagana) trace their roots to religious practices (...) the Indian diaspora has led to the translocation of Hindu dances to Europe, North America and the world." whose theory and practice can be traced to the Sanskrit text Natya Shastra.

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Indian vernacular architecture

Indian vernacular architecture the informal, functional architecture of structures, often in rural areas of India, built of local materials and designed to meet the needs of the local people.

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Intentional community

An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.

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Jennifer Dunning

Jennifer Dunning (born February 4, 1942) is a writer and critic for The New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet.

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Joan Acocella

Joan Acocella (née Ross, born 1945) is an American journalist who is a staff writer for The New Yorker, writing about dance and books.

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Joyce Theater

The Joyce Theater (The Joyce") is a 472-seat dance performance venue located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.

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Karnataka

Karnataka also known Kannada Nadu is a state in the south western region of India.

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Kathak

Kathak also known in Hindi as कथक is one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance.

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Kathakali

Kathakali (കഥകളി) is one of the major forms of classical Indian dance.

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Kelucharan Mohapatra

Kelucharan Mohapatra (8 January 1926 – 7 April 2004) was a legendary Indian classical dancer, guru, and exponent of Odissi dance, who is credited with the revival and popularizing of this classical dance form in the 20th century.

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Kuchipudi

Kuchipudi is one of the eight major Indian classical dances.

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Lake Manasarovar

Lake Manasarovar (Chinese: -zh玛旁雍錯 (simplified), -zh瑪旁雍錯(traditional)), also called Mapam Yumtso, is a high altitude freshwater lake fed by the Kailash Glaciers near Mount Kailash in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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Malpa landslide

The Malpa landslide was one of the worst landslides in India.

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Manipuri dance

Manipuri dance, also known as Jagoi, is one of the major Indian classical dance forms, named after the region of its origin – Manipur, a state in northeastern India bordering with Myanmar (Burma), Assam, Nagaland and Mizoram.

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Mohiniyattam

Mohiniyattam, also spelled Mohiniattam (മോഹിനിയാട്ടം), is one of two classical dances of India that developed and remain popular in the state of Kerala.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Odissi

Odissi (ଓଡ଼ିଶୀ Oḍiśī), also referred to as Orissi in older literature, is a major ancient Indian classical dance that originated in the Hindu temples of Odisha – an eastern coastal state of India.

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Pithoragarh

Pithoragarh is a town with a Municipal Board in the Pithoragarh district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, which was carved out of the Almora district in 1960.

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Pittsburgh Dance Council

Pittsburgh Dance Council was established in 2002 as a programming division of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

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Protima Bedi

Protima Gauri Bedi (October 12, 1948 – August 18, 1997) was an Indian model turned odissi exponent.

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Sense

A sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception.

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Tehelka

Tehelka (Hindi: Sensation) is an Indian news magazine known for its investigative journalism and sting operations.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Vasanta Habba

Vasanta Habba (ವಸಂತ ಹಬ್ಬ), which means spring festival in the Kannada language, is a cultural festival organised by the Nrityagram foundation in the city of Bangalore, India.

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Wikimapia

Wikimapia is a privately owned open-content collaborative mapping project, that utilizes an interactive "clickable" web map with a geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world.

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Woodstock

The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000.

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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December with the epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nrityagram

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