Third Eye: 2010

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Monday, October 04, 2010

Thursday, September 30, 2010

MORE STILLS FROM "PENANCE OF ARUCHUNAN: A REFORMULATED KOOTHTHU"

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

AFFILIATES OF THIRDEYE IN "THE PENANCE OF ARUCHUNAN"

KALAIVANI AND YARLINI OF THIRDEYE ARE PERFORMING IN "THE PENANCE OF ARUCHUNAN": A REFORMULATED VADAMODY KOOTHTHU

THE PENANCE OF ARUCHUNAN

T.GOWREESWARAN AS VEDAN (HUNTER) IN THE PENANCE OF ARUCHUNAN : A VADAMODY KOOTHTHU OF MATTAKKALAPPU, SRI LANKA!

STILLS SPEAKES OF KOOTHTHU!

THEATRE OF KOOTHTHU SPEAKS ITSELF!

ANNAVIYAR THE MASTER OF KOOTHTHU AT THE CENTRE OF KALARI AND MANUPULATES THE KOOTHTHAR AROUND HIM TO THE BEAT OF HIS MATHTHALAM

KOOTHTHAR AT THE CENTRE OF THE KALARI AND PERFORMS TO THE BEATS OF ANNAVIYAR

Monday, September 27, 2010

PENANCE OF ARUCHUNAN: A REFORMULATED KOOTHTHU 2010!

PERFORMANCE OF SEPTEMBER 2010

KOOTHTHAR IN MAKE-UP PROCESS

STILLS FROM VASAN'S PAINTING EXHIBITION

Monday, August 30, 2010

EXHIBITION OF PAINTING AND INSTALLATION

Nirmalavasan aka Vasan is young and powerful painter from Batticaloa, Sri Lanka is taking art to the people after A.Mark, the doyen of Sri Lankan Thamil painters.

The works of vasan are multidimensional and innovative. His work on applied painting with School children and the children in the villages has parallel in Educational Theatre of the Sri Lankan Thamils.

The use of medium and the message in his creative works are strange but explores the severity of the life in crisis.

His expressions are genuine to life and the creations are truthful to the medium of the art.

The paintings will speak for him in detail!

Friday, August 27, 2010

Kooththu Exponant of Moolai, Jaffna: Sankaran Annamalai with wife Naagammai

HE IS NOT AN ANNAVIYAR OR A KOOTHTHU PERFORMER BUT MASTER EXPERT IN THE ART OF KOOTHTHU, THE TRADITIONAL THEATRE OF THE THAMILS OF SRILANKA. HE IS WELL VERSED IN KOOTHTHU TEXTS AND TECHNIQUES.

HE WAS A DROPPED OUT FROM HIS VERY EARLY SCHOOL YEARS BECAUSE OF HIS SPEECH PROBLEM. THE INSTITUTION GAVE UP BUT NOT THE CHILD. HE TOOK TO KOOTHTHU AND KAVADI SONGS AND BECAME A POERFUL SINGER.

WE MET HIM IN HIS SEVENTIES AND SHOCKED WITH HIS ABILITY OF SINGING NOT ONLY THE KOOTHTHU SONGS BUT THE OTHER FOLK AND DEVOTIONAL SONGS TOO. HIS KNOWLEDGE IN TRADITON IS TREMENDOUS.

HE IS ONE OF THE LIVIVNG POWER HOUSE OF TRADITONAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL OF THE THAMILS OF SRI LANKA.

BUT THE MODERN KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTIONS ARE BLIND TO IT.

WE ARE YET TO DECOLONIZE OURSELVES!

Kooththar at practice: Villavedduwan, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

Kulanthai M. Shanmuhalingam: The Doyen of Sri Lankan Thamil Modern Theatre with Young Kooththar of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

(L-R)K.Kalaimahal and K. Vivekanandarajah

Vibrant Kooththu Tradition from Araly-2010!

There are villages in Jaffna practicing Kooththu and contains vibrant dances of the tradition supported by marvellous playing of Maththalam.

Araly is one of the village consists of a long tradition of Kooththu in Jaffna still strong on its art even after waves and waves of displacements and refuge life.

Annaviyar of kaaththavarayan Kooththu-Neervely, Jaffna

My Monologue: Kamala Vasuki

A woman entering the stage in laughter,

----- (Miming) --------

Looking down at the cradle, taking the baby in her arms, hugging and making it sleep (humming a Thaladdu…lullaby)

Suddenly she hears the bombers, shells and bombs…

She runs with the child here and there…crawling and,

trying to keep her child attached to her stomach,…… so as to keep it back safe in her womb…

------ (Silence) ------

Then she rises slowly as there is a flood beneath her

She: It is rising,

the cruel hands of war is rising like flames

I will never allow its tips to touch my child

the cruel hands of war is rising like flames

I will never allow its tips to touch my child

------- (Miming) --------

She is rising the child up little by little, with her rising voice and rising body.

She keeps the child high as possible,

and

with a deep weep the child vanished from her hand

------ ( Freeze )-----

She then returns to a normal position and addressing the audience.

She: I would never ever allow this to happen, I would never ever allow this to happen

MY CHILD IS NOT FOR WAR.