SANGEET NATAK AKADEMI
Inaugurated in 1953, it functions through a General council,
an executive Board, A finance committee and other standing or ado committee. Which
the General council or th Executive Board may appoint. The main objective of
the Akademi is to foster and develop Indian dance, drama (including films) an
music and to promote through them the cultural unity of the country. The main
task of the Akademi for the present is to conduct survey and research in the
existing art –forms found in various parts
So the country. To record
and film them as a part of our cultural heritage, to publish or to encourage publication of
material bout them to develop and popularize these arts by organizing and
sponsoring seminars and festivals and by establishing institutions, and to give
awards to famous artists for music, fork and classical dance, drama and
films.
To achieve its objective and executive its programmed the
akademi has been organizing national music festival since 1954, National dance
Fl of all classical and traditional dances and modern ballets, has been giving
financial National Awards to eminent vocalists and instrumentalists of n\both
North Indian and Caryatid music as well as classical deciders every year. It
has been awarding Running trophy every year to the best troop participating in
the annual folk Dance festival held in Delhi on the occasion of Republic Day
annual for Dance Festival held in Delhi on the occasion of Republic Day
celebrations. It is trying trod build up a library of Indian music and has set
up a committee to compel a dictionary of technical terms in Indian music, dance
and drama. Efforts are being made to encourage, popularize and develop
community singing in the country. Tile various state governments have
established regional academies to record and collect folk music and dance of their
respective areas.
As regards Drama, the akademi has requested the various
state governments to set up their local cultural centres where artists can
perform and people can participate in their own dramas, music, dance, etc. The
akademi is trying to build up a national Theatre in Delhi, and is presenting national
Awards to those recorders every year and giving financial assistance to deserving
organizations and institutions. It has been organizing programmers of dance and
music for the various visiting cultural delegations of foreign countries.
It view of the many theatrical, musical and dance forms
prevalent in the country, the akademi has set up a special unit for surveying
and documenting them. Its is and tape library has the largest collection of
Indian classical, folk and tribal ,music and dance and theatre items.
The akademi is running two national institutions for
imparting training in dance. These are the Kathak Kendra, New Delhi, and the Jawaharlal
Nehru Manipuri Dance Academy, Lapthal. The akademi has also been helping in the
resurgence of the puppet theatre in the country.
The akademi operates a scheme under which subsidy is given
for publication of books in various Indian languages and in English on music,
dance and drama. It honors outstanding performing artists by making them
fellows and confers annual awards.
The akademi has gallery of musical instruments. Safari,
where a large number of classical, folk and trial musical instruments are on
display. Yavnaika, another gallery, houses a representative collection of
fascinating masks, puppets an folk theatre costumes.
The akademi gives considerable importance to documentation
of various forms of traditional, folk and tribal performing arts. For the
purpose, it has a unit which documents the arts in the shape of films, photographs
and recording on sound and video tapes. This documented material is kept in the
archives of the akademi and is a available to research scholars.
The akademi also operates plan schemes for preservation and
promotion of regional arts and dances and many forms of tribal performing arts
by organizing festivals in areas where there is concentration of tribal
population.
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