Atam: A hands-on tool for creative dance training gets patent recognition in India
According to Jayachandran, who along with several other dance teachers, used the tool on their students for his research, the combinations of movement that emerged made it seem like different forms of dance. Some felt like Ballet, some like our Tamil folk dances, some Mohiniattam, some Bharathanatyam, and so on.
Although it developed from the idea of helping his beginner-level students take interest in dance, especially his B.Tech students who had a dance course at IIIT-Hyderabad, the tool, he says, now offers more to advanced practitioners. 'It is helping practitioners to compose new dance moves. What was a teaching tool for students, has become a tool for the teachers today,' he concludes.
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