I have always enjoyed watching poorvaranga but it is rare these days.
Some melas present an abridged version of it and slowly the artistes good at performing poorvaranga dances are disappearing from the professional troupes. Of the existing melas, I think Kateel mela has retained this tradition relatively in a better way. So they have kodangi, balagopala, streevesha (picture above) and ardhanaree vesha (picture below).
The prictures here are of poorvaranga performance of Kateel troupe-IV
Years ago Tenkutittu Hitarakshana Vedike, Sullia, documented the audio (himmela) of tenkutittu poorvaranga in cassettes which may be still available in the market. Budding documentary and film maker Abhaya Simha has done a video documentary of Badagu poorvaranga. I have read in Ashok Vardhan's b
log that Soorikumeri Govinda Bhat did a video documentary of tenku poorvaranga but I have not been able to find it in shops.Here is (pp 1-2; 3-4; 5-6; 7-8; 9) a detailed article about poorvaranga written by Balipa Narayana Bhagavatha, who seems to be the only Bhagavatha with an authoritative knowledge about it....
Also read Subrahmanya Bhat's post on the topic in his blog Ballirenayya
2 comments:
"Here is a detailed article about poorvaranga written by Balipa Narayana Bhagavatha"
can you please give the link?
thank you for the up date. Most informative article on poorvaranga. thanks a lot
Post a Comment