paramparai arts

PARAMPARAI ARTS concentrates on DEVADASI Performing Arts as a synergy of poetry, music and dance maintained by Devadasi families and their direct students.  Contrary to reform movements in (post-)colonial India Paramparai aims to understand this cultural heritage as part of its original milieu of the Hindu temple and royal court.  Its director, Dr. Saskia Kersenboom, studied with devadasis of Tiruttani and Tiruvarur temples, and with Smt. Nandini Ramani the royal repertoire of Smt. Tanjavur Balasaraswati.
Several methods contribute to this approach: teaching DASI ATTAM as a multi medial art in long and short term courses in Legend, a village in the countryside of Northern Hungary; the complementary method of 'residency in Tamil Nadu' opens up the experience of  embeddedness of these arts in Hindu temple worship and courtly sophistication. Both trajectories are accredited by the International Dance Council-UNESCO, Paris.
info Paramparai Arts (Foundation): https://www.paramparai.eu