The Nataraj Academy is an organization serving the needs of GTA community with the aim of retaining our ancient heritage.
We aim to bring the people together through performing arts & visual art..
For the first time in the history of Canada, Nataraj Academy proudly presents Mahatma Gandhi Exhibition on October 2nd 2010 at Scarborough Civic Center in Toronto.
T.V. episodes based on Panchtantra Tales will be produced.
Dance is a perfect medium to express thoughts, emotion, theme cultural feelings and many other facets of life, though facial expressions and graceful movements, with icing at the top with make-up, costumes, music and lightening effects.
With its grammar originating in a treatise of dramaturgy (Bharata's Natya Shastra) Bharatanatyam is pure theatre. It harnesses the excitement of a live experience between an artist and her audience in an electrifying moment of interaction.
From a mere traditional dance form of even a few decades ago, Bharatanatyam today has become an art form. The dance is a means of communication to the artists. They can use it to express amazing ideas and concepts.
This is the bete noire of dancers today. They are constantly under pressure to create "new" things. Organizers very often tell us that only the "new" can attract the audience. This needs to be resisted. New for newness sake is only a mirage. The true new has to emerge from convictions and the very soul.
This is linked to the dance becoming an art form; its envisioning has changed. And this is what choreography really is - a new way of looking.
Expression or abhinaya remains the bridge for the artist to communicate ideas and concepts to the audience. This expression can be facial (mukhabhinaya), expression of the entire body (angika-abhinaya) or indeed expression of the soul (satvika abhinaya).