Eminent Contributions to this field of art done by:-
1) Nandini Bannerjee is a first year student in the Ethnomusicology PhD program at Columbia University. Her interests lie in Hindustani Classical music, in the musical works of Rabindranath Tagore and in exploring the effective roles of tradition and modernity in Indian immigrant communities.
Presentation: :"Bauls and the popular music of Bengal"
Bauls are the wandering musical minstrels of Bengal. Originally from the district of Birbhum (which is now in West Bengal), they epitomize the spirituality and musicality of both the East and West Bengal. The word Baul comes from the Sanskrit word "Vatula", which roughly translates to mad or lashed by the wind. Bauls stem from the history of non-conformism and have upheld music as their religion. In their songs, they explore
the state of disconnect between the earthly souls and the spiritual world and offer a subtle revelation of the spiritual force as an inner God that transcends formal and organized religious doctrines around schools. Every year in the month of Pausha (approximately mid January), the district of Birbhum holds a Baul festival called the Kenduli Mela. The three day open air festival celebrates the musical art of Bauls, which is a peripheral but thriving art in Bengal. Nandini will be presenting some videos taken at the Kenduli Mela and will discuss some of the unifying and contextual similarities between Baul music and Rabindrasangeet (the songs of Tagore).
2) Deepshikha Chatterjee is the costume design faculty at Hunter Collge CUNY where she enjoys teaching a diverse group of students courses in design, costume history, costume technology, and crafts. She has a MFA degree in costume design from FSU. Deepshikha also has been researching and presenting on theater, dance and film costumes from India and Southeast Asia. She recently got a grant from CUNY to study Chhau dance masks and costumes in Purulia, India.
3) Amanda Culp is a student and teaching fellow in the doctoral subcommittee on theater at Columbia University, where she studies classical Sanskrit drama and intercultural dramaturgy. She is a resident dramaturg with NY based company One Year Lease, where her credits include the Killing Room, the Bold Soprano. Most recently, she worked on a production of Vijay Tendulkar's Sakharam Binder at 3LD directed by Nikhil Mehta.
Source: Google and their respective websites
the state of disconnect between the earthly souls and the spiritual world and offer a subtle revelation of the spiritual force as an inner God that transcends formal and organized religious doctrines around schools. Every year in the month of Pausha (approximately mid January), the district of Birbhum holds a Baul festival called the Kenduli Mela. The three day open air festival celebrates the musical art of Bauls, which is a peripheral but thriving art in Bengal. Nandini will be presenting some videos taken at the Kenduli Mela and will discuss some of the unifying and contextual similarities between Baul music and Rabindrasangeet (the songs of Tagore).
2) Deepshikha Chatterjee is the costume design faculty at Hunter Collge CUNY where she enjoys teaching a diverse group of students courses in design, costume history, costume technology, and crafts. She has a MFA degree in costume design from FSU. Deepshikha also has been researching and presenting on theater, dance and film costumes from India and Southeast Asia. She recently got a grant from CUNY to study Chhau dance masks and costumes in Purulia, India.
3) Amanda Culp is a student and teaching fellow in the doctoral subcommittee on theater at Columbia University, where she studies classical Sanskrit drama and intercultural dramaturgy. She is a resident dramaturg with NY based company One Year Lease, where her credits include the Killing Room, the Bold Soprano. Most recently, she worked on a production of Vijay Tendulkar's Sakharam Binder at 3LD directed by Nikhil Mehta.
Source: Google and their respective websites
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