Almora Dreams: Art and Life at the Uday Shankar Cultural Centre, 1939–44
By: Khullar, Sonal
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Publisher: Mumbai The Marg Foundation 2018Edition: Vol. 69 (4), 2018.Description: 14-31 Pages.
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MargSummary: This essay analyses the ambitions and achievements of a performing arts space and school set up by Uday Shankar in Almora in 1939. The Centre offered lessons in dance, music, paintingand theatre, drawing inspiration from everyday life, folk and tribal traditions, and classical and modernist art. Although a short-lived project, it brought together a talented group of individuals from different communities and regions, who would go onto make their mark on stage and screen and define the cultural foundations of a newly independent India. The author traces the little-known history of this institution, based on an archive of photographs and papers belonging to one of its former students.
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This essay analyses the ambitions and achievements of a performing arts space and school set up by Uday Shankar in Almora in 1939. The Centre offered lessons in dance, music, paintingand theatre, drawing inspiration from everyday life, folk and tribal traditions, and classical and modernist art. Although a short-lived project, it brought together a talented group of individuals from different communities and regions, who would go onto make their mark on stage and screen and define the cultural foundations of a newly independent India. The author traces the little-known history of this institution, based on an archive of photographs and papers belonging to one of its former students.
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