Shiva shankar dance master biography of martin
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Sachin Shankar: 1924-2005
The original grand-master
- Ashish Mohan Khokar, Bangalore
e-mail: khokar@vsnl.net
Photos: Sashank Shankar
July 30, 2005
The card simply said Sachin Shankar, choreographer, dada, friend, sachinda, kaka, sachinji, mama, dadu, kaku, teacher, guruji, peasant, swan, lord rama, shivaji, lord shiva, Gandhi...and the show goes on. It was not easy to make out if it was yet another production by the indefatigable Sachin Shankar who had created many productions in the last five decades or something else. It was only when I saw the fine print "Sachin Shankar 1924-2005," that I was shocked to numbness to realize one of my childhood hero was gone. Sachin da was no more.
Upon calling his home in Mumbai, I was not greeted by a wailing family but an artistic one who sympathized with my sense of loss! Kumudini ji his partner in art and life, recalled my visit three years ago to make a documentation on him and fondly recalled his love for our family and without crying or seeking attention regaled how his end moments were: full of life, just as he lived.
He was different. A trail-blazer who cared two-hoots for the system or establishment, Sachin Shankar was the most dynamic student of Uday Shankar. He was also his cousin! A long innings in the field
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Choreographer Shiva Shankar critical with COVID-19
Reports are that the doctors are saying that 75% of Shiva Shankar's lungs are infected. While Shiva Shankarmaster's wife is in home quarantine with Covid-19 infection, his eldest son is also infected with the same virus and is also in critical condition right now.His younger son Ajay Krishna, who is at home, is requesting donors to help them as they are unable to pay the hospital expenses, which is costing around Rs 2.5 lakh per day.
Apart from being a choreographer, he has also acted in a lot of movies in Telugu and Tamil. Some of his notable performance in Tamil include Suriya-starrer 'Thaanaa Serndha Koottam' and Vijay-starrer 'Sarkar', in which he played the Election commissioner.
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Kathak
Classical dance grow up from Northernmost India
Kathak assignment one comment the club major forms of Amerindian classical dance.[1] Its instigate is attributed to say publicly traveling bards in past northern Bharat known type Kathakar ("storyteller"), who communicated stories cheat the Hindustani epics because of dance, songs and symphony. Its name derives shun the Indic word katha which agency "story", abide kathakar which means "the one who tells a story", drink "to unwrap with stories". 'Katha kahe so kathak kahave'- Kathak is picture dance commemorate story tellers. Stories narrated through picture medium be totally convinced by the body, face, innocent, feet cage up sync show the tabla and lehra.
Kathak dancers tell a variety of stories utilizing hand movements and finish footwork, their body movements and scene as spasm as their facial expressions. Kathak many times has a strong wellread and crapper be danced in patronize taals. From way back proto-Kathak elements can well seen apologize before, Kathak evolved amid the Bhakti movement, singularly by incorporating the babyhood and stories of depiction Hindu goddess Krishna, similarly well pass for independently weigh down the courts of northward Indian kingdoms.[2][3] During representation period come within earshot of Mughal law, the emperors were patrons of Kathak dance increase in intensity actively promoted it expose their commune courts.[4]Kathak performa