![]() From the tender age of four, Jayashree was inducted into the art of dance. She perfectly exaggerated her art with strong and active practice, love and commitment. She has catered her audiences in almost all major cities and festivals all over India through her solo concerts and ballets. At the international festival held at Athens, at the Festival De La Mer at Mauritius and at Singapore she has performed her concert. She has bagged the unparallel exclusive right of representing India in France in the International summer Festival. She has demonstrated for major universities and organizations also. Jayashree Rajagopalan has been esteemed as a performing artiste of rare quality. Kavi Kalidasa's "Shakuntalam", the "Ramayana", excerpts from the Bhagvatam, the ![]() She has studied and gracefully finished the Nritya Visharad and the Nrithyashali. She has been specializing in the study of the 108 Karanas of Natya Sastra, which shaped the unit of dance movement in ancient India. Jayashree Rajagopalan also received specialized training in Nattuvangam. Nattuvangam is a form of 'conducting a classical dance performance by reciting rhythmic syllables and playing the cymbals' and make-up technique. This multi faceted personality also posses training in Indian Classical Music . She has also done her graduation in drawing and painting. She has done research on "Aharya Abhinaya". It is a subject, which deals with 'the external elements of communication like make-up, costume, jewellery, stage props and scenery' as described in the Natya Sastra. The Department of Culture, Govt. of India, has awarded her the Senior Research Fellowship, for a comparative study of 'Thirupugazhtalas of South India with the Manipuri tales of the East'. Today Jayashree's main aim is to propagate the ancient dramatic technique of the natya shastra known as (Marga), which was restored to consciousness by her Guru Dr. Padma Subhramanium, both nationally and globally. This would at the same time bridge the gap between the Marga and Desi (regional) forms of art; and it will automatically create better connectivity between them. She is always attempted to regenerate the pattern of ancient Indian Theatre, which is a symmetrical blend of dance, mime, music and dialogue through multilingual presentations. She ceaselessly tries to engage the 'Cross cultural exchange of ideas' in this creative process. Her main focus is to reach out to the people all over the world and from all walks of life. ![]() Jayashree has extensively researched and studied the 5th chapter of Natya Sastra. Her research ensued in the choreography of a Citra Purvaranga, which has been adapted in various dance dramas. Two significant aspects of the culture of Western India, ' The Mahavira Janmabhishek' - the birth of Tirtankara Mahavira, in Gujarati and Bhakta Sakha Vitthala, the episodes from the Varkari Sants of maharashtra, has been popularized through Jayashree's creation of Bharata Nrityam. She has composed and tuned different Pushpanjali, Kauthwam and Tillana and staged 'Abhijnana Shakuntalam', 'Kamayani', 'Bhakta Sakha Vitthala' & 'Chandalika' in the lines of ancient Indian Theatre. She has presented the quality of being united into one of the Desis through the medium of Bharata Nrityam, Odissi, Mohiniyttam, Kathak, Manipuri, Kuchipudi. She has also conducted 'Rajata Mahotsava', The Silver Jubilee celebration of nrithyodaya held in Mumbai. |
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