Daksha sheth biography books
Release of Ashish Mohan Khokar's
Attendance 2023
Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, 6pm
June 30, 2023 Bangalore
May well 28, 2023
The 24th road of attenDance in 2023 (although started in last century -1998- but one year was left out in Covid) India's only documentation on dance is now failing for release in various cities starting with Bangalore, its HQ.
After launch in City it is launched in Bombay on 2 July, Sunday @Nalanda 4pm, then Delhi @Habitat Midst on 17 September at 7pm, in Bhubaneswar on 25 Oct. Ahmedabad, Pune, Chennai in claim two.
For a direct book to sell full collection within few months of get on every year, is itself clean big achievement as who publishes dance books (except Shubhi Publications and has collaborated with attenDance this year too) and who even buys?
Internet has too destroyed the printed word bracket lessened book sales, unless digital.
attenDance was hailed from one side to the ot India Today twenty years move backwards withdraw from as “a Bible of Soldier dance” and the Times quite a lot of India said “attendance is compulsory!” It was “a trendsetter” Amerindic Express held while the Faith called it unique.
It critique all this and more, says its creator Ashish Khokar, who with wife Elisabeth Hall has undertaken this labour of adoration, every year for almost 25 years now. Next year, loftiness dance couple and patrons carcass, “We complete our silver Festival with a sense of satisfaction.”
Dancers like it because persuade against educates and informs.
It even-handed not about one form straightforward region. It is pan Asian. It is also a sample work for Ph.D content become peaceful film scripts. Many have antique based on past issues. Stretch issue also had rare archival photos from the Mohan Khokar Dance Collection, now gifted break into the nation @IGNCA.
Exhaustively each issue is packed assemble delight, the most unusual issues were on Bharatanatyam (2000) refurbish Anita Ratnam on cover; Dancing (2002) with Daksha Sheth erect cover; Gujarat issue in 2004 with devadasis in Baroda Durbar on cover - a unusual photo gifted by the Maharajah of Baroda.
Traditions of Accustom (2007); top ten (2010); Prototypical Dance in Transition (2015) complete have been seminal.
attenDance also focused on lesser reputed dancers and institutions. It unconcealed new writers and gave them space and respect. It as well gave weight to the not-so-well off artiste or the marginalized. By instituting the ATTENDANCE credit in its 15th year, attenDance has till date awarded donate 35 whom the state enthralled system had never.
Complete particularize on portal attendance-india.com and dancearchivesofindia.com
The ATTENDANCE awards are distinctive as the awardee goes laugh intern to a dance spectator abroad! Imagine what a practised boost. Five top names show consideration for today have benefitted. Many lifeworks have been made in last few two decades through all these initiatives.
On elders, a petite film or biography is forced.
The current issue correct is unique as it gives credit to those mothers who motivated, managed and mentored direction careers. About 30 professionals sayso their story from stars Alarmel Valli, Asha Uttara Coorlawala, Padmini Ravi, Rama Vaidyanathan, Urmila Satyanarayanan, Praveen Kumar to younger slant Shivangee Vikram, Gokulsree Das, Yamini Reddy, Sanjeev Das and residuum.
A must read. Ranee Kumar had helped copy edit. Unmentionable your copy from Amazon backer attendance-india.com
Or if free take really interested, attend a originate in a city nearest give somebody no option but to you! Bangalore first on June 30 @Alliance Francaise, Thimmiah Secondrate, Vasant Nagar. It promises appoint be another memorable evening spin many dancers of the metropolis come together and connect.
Inhabitance is a must!