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New Indian Express
13-08-2025
- Science
- New Indian Express
Atam: A hands-on tool for creative dance training gets patent recognition in India
One might expect a software engineer to develop an AI-driven system or a sleek app, but Jayachandran chose a different path. He set out to create something simple, tangible, and physical — a tool one could hold, roll, and interact with directly, free from screens and algorithms. 'I was inspired by the Montessori method of education in Kalakshetra Foundation, where children would play with physical objects and learn. That caught my attention during my tenure as a faculty member. Especially the cubes, the building blocks, and the dice. So the idea of a cube was always in the back of my head. I decided to use it and stick postures to each face of the cube,' he explains. 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 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.
The Hindu
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Music varsity to conduct festival of dance and music
Karnataka State Dr. Gangubai Hanagal Music and Performing Arts University will conduct a festival of dance and music in the city from Tuesday to May 3. The festival, SNA Fellows and Awardees Festival of Music and Dance, will be held at the Vigyana Bhavan auditorium, Manasagangotri campus, the University of Mysore. It has been organised in association with Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi. On Tuesday, there will be a Carnatic vocal recital by R. Visveswaran from 11 a.m. In the evening session, there will be a Hindustani instrumental concert featuring Sarod by Harvinder Singh at 4 p.m. This will be followed by Odissi dance by Niranjan Rout, Manipuri dance by Sijagurumayum Noyonshakti, Mohiniattam by Kala Vijayan, and Kuchipudi by Raja Reddy and Radha Reddy. There will be similar programmes featuring dance and music on the remaining days of the festival. Some of the artists who will perform on April 30 are Sangita Gosain (Odissi music), Sadhu Charan Mahato (Chhau dance), Osman Bai Hussain Bahi Mir (creative and experimental dance), Bhagavatula Sethuram (Kuchipudi), Pallavi Krishna (Mohiniattam), among others. Other artists who will perform from May 1 to 3 include Subramaiam Shekar (creative and experimental dance), Urmila Sathyanarayanan (Bharatnatyam), Vinod Kumar Dwivedi (Hindustani Dhrupad), Margi Vijayakumar (Kathakali), Nirupama Rajendra, and T.D. Rajendra (creative and experimental dance), Shankar Shastry (Carnatic vocal), Harvinder Kumar Sharma (Sitar), Moinuddin Khan (Sarangi), among others. While the morning sessions will commence from 11 a.m., the evening sessions will commence from 4 p.m. on all days.
