[Reader-list] IPTA - Emerging Aspects 2

[Sumangala Damodaran]

IPTA in the Early Years� Emerging Aspects 2.

One extremely interesting aspect of the early years of the IPTA is the range of personalities that were associated with it and the nature of their contribution. Ranging from classical musicians such as Ravi Shankar and Jyotirindra Moitra to trained dancers such as Shanti Bardhan, Narendra Sharma, and Appunni to young singers and dancers who came from within the left movement such as Preeti Banerjee, Reba Raychaudhuri, Benoy Roy, Rekha Jain and Dina Pathak to working class singers such as Amar Sheikh and Dashrath Lal, a wide gamut of artistes participated in the creation of artistic productions which included theatre, dance and music. All these artistes lived in extremely difficult conditions in a commune in Bombay and devoted themselves, for differing periods of time, to the creation of an alternative aesthetic culture. The sheer range of their experiences and training gave rise to the range of styles mentioned earlier. A number of interesting debates relating to form and content and
 the meaning of cultural intervention in the building of the left movement took place in the period. While I am attempting to document this, I am also trying to unravel the content of the alternative aesthetic culture that was being attempted.


		
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