தமிழ்ப் பாரம்பரியம்
(Tamil Heritage Trust)
presents
Kootha-nool (கூத்தநூல்)
by
Dr S.Raghuraman, Pulavar, MA, M.Phil, M.Ed, PhD
at 5.30pm on Saturday, January 5th, 2013
at Vinobha Hall, Thakkar Bapa Vidyalaya, T Nagar.
About the topic:
Kootha-nool by
Saththanar, is the earliest Tamil work on dramaturgy and might have been
written during the Tolkapiyam period. Some scholars consider that this
formed the basis for Bharata’s Natyasastra. Passages from this are found
quoted and commented upon by Arumpada-urai-asiriyar, Adiyarkku-nallar,
Nachinaari-kiniyar etc. The author mentions that he made use of 18
earlier works, which are no more available. The work consists of 9
chapters of which the last three is not available. A number of terms
used in this work, like uLLALam, ALatti, nALatti, are no more in
currency. This is the earliest work that differentiates talam for dance
from talam for music.
About the speaker:
Dr
Raghuraman is an Associate professor in Tamil in A.M.Jain college,
Chennai and a visiting faculty of the Kalakshetra, Chennai. He is a
research guide for Bharata natyam in Bharatiyar University, Coimbatore.
He has given a number of lec-dems on dance, rasa, ashta naayakis of
Sangam age, sensualities, mother godess worship, Tholkaapiya meypaatiyal
etc. He is the author of Tamizhar natana varalaaru and Natana
kalaichol kaLanjiyam. He has so far produced 200 dance dramas, of which
120 were written by him. He has received many awards like Bhaskara
puraskaar award as Ilakkiya Bhaaskara, Senthamizh chemmal by Thiru kural
aayvu maiyyam, Natonal award for script writting theatre drama for
Andhi veLi and was awarded for his outstanding services to the art of
dance and for his lyrics by Sailasudha organization, 2010
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