How Chennai’s performing arts communities are tiding through lockdown
4 years, 7 months ago

How Chennai’s performing arts communities are tiding through lockdown

The Hindu  

A three-fold cardboard parai ; a Zoom screen split in four; theory classes, and technical glitches — a typical day in folk and theatre artiste Vishwa Bharath’s life now looks like this. Muffled beats flow as students try different rhythm sequences: “It’s otherwise a very loud art form,” he adds. Similiarly, Sumanasa foundation, an arts collective, also organised an online performing arts festival, featuring forms like kattaikoothu and karagattam and yakshagaana among many others that are outside the digital economy, in an effort to monetarily help performers. There is a saying in Tamil, ‘ Aaduna kaalum, vaasicha kayyum, summa irukaathu,”’ says Vishwa, “Nothing can replace that feeling.” This is perhaps what they miss the most.

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