Classical indian music
In this clip, I am going to describe to you the Odissi costume. This is Roopa Mathur, my senior most student. Who has had her Manch Pravesh, a few years ago. Which is her orientation as a professional...
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In this clip I'm going to show the twenty eight single hand gestures that make up the vocabulary for the dance form. These hand gestures are used in the story telling part. In which they...
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In this clip, we're going to focus on the hand positions, or "hasta veda", in Manipuri dance. Now, the very first position, you're going to have your hands in front...
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This is the sound of Summer in Serbia....the EXIT music festival started small on the banks of the Danube River as a protest by a group of young people fed up with the war in the former Yugoslavia....
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Well first of all I'd say that I think we've never had it so good, as an audience. I mean you can't possibly watch and listen to everything that's out there. The...
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In celebration of the 100-year anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's monumental "Rite of Spring," eight composers have teamed up to create the RiteNow Project. The RiteNow Project...
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Karthi. Wake up. If you keep sleeping like this nothing auspicious will happen in our house. Ya...As if its going to happen if I wake up Karthi....Karthi... Its true that your parents are looking for...
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In this clip I'll show a variation of the basic Adavu Tai Ya Tai. Do three on the right and three on the left. Turn the feet out to the side, bend the knees. Right foot first and Tai Ya, Tai...
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In this we're going to show how those steps that we just demonstrated would be put together in a short composition. This is from Ganapati Kadvam, a short invocational piece in praise of the...
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In this clip I'll explain the first basic step which is the foundation of all the rest of the steps. When we begin on the dance form we start with a Namaskaram, which is a salutation to Mother...
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