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These are dance-dramas and several characters play part, using dialogues which they speak in Brajbuli, a mixture of Mythili and Brajbhasha. Gitor Nach, Nadu Bhangi, Chali Nach, Behar Nach and so on.It was a vast campus and there were four rows of houses where monks stayed. Armed with a camera and a tape recorder after a long journey I reached after four days to Kamalabari Sattra. P.During my stay I collected lot of information watching dance. Raghavan, Kapila Vatsyayan, Shambhu Maharaj, Lacchu Maharaj, Birju Maharaj and many more, saw for the first time dances of celibate monks from Majuli Island on banks of Brahmaputra river. Now we have Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Manipuri, Kathakali, Odissi, Kuchipudi, Mohini Attam and Sattriya eight classical dance forms, which no other country can boast of.In its solo form Sattriya is performed like other classical dance forms. Dr Mulk Raj Anand suggested that I go to Majuli Island and do research work and prepare a special issue and book on Sattriya dances. By 1958, with participation in Dance Seminar, it was accepted as a classical dance form of Assam. In Assam for past 600 years in more than 500 sattras, monasteries the monks perform dance as a ritual worship before the holy book Srimad Bhagavata placed on a throne, in a large hall known as Namghar. At the heart of sattra is the namaghar where music, dance and dance-drama performances take place.
Today several things have changed in terms of presentation, colourful costumes and sophisticated movements, retaining the traditional core values, and practically every young girl in Assam performs Sattriya dances.Based as I was in Mumbai, I was advised to go to Guwahati, meet Dr Maheswar Neog and with his letter of introduction go to Kamalabari Sattra.Barring Govind Vidyarthi from Sangeet Natak Akademi, no one else from outside of Assam had ever visited Kamalabari Sattra.The well known Dashavatara, ten incarnations, based on Gita Govinda of Jayadev. I was ushered into the world of celibate dancing monks and watch the rituals, worship and dancing. Finally with Bhupen Hazarika’s Door Openers Factory initiative and a conference to determine Sattriya as classical dance, it was given recognition as 8th classical dance form other three Mohini Attam, Odissi and Kuchipudi were given status as classical dances before Sattriya dances. More than 27 dancers moved playing khols creating various patterns. By 1950s with revival of several dance forms, Sattriya, through writings of Dr Neog drew attention of scholars and Government officers. And Bhaona. But the final recognition came only in 2000 during Bhupen Hazarika’s chairmanship of SNA. I was asked to offer my salutations facing him, sitting on the ground. I had seen Manipuri dancers playing on pung and taking aerial rounds, leaping in the air. He started a religious movement for universal brotherhood through congregational prayer in which the primacy of bhakti, devotion is considered more desirable than mukti, liberation. Indira PP Bora, Sharodi Saikia and his own daughters were his first students. The corpus of Sattriya dances also contained what is known as Ankiya Nat. He moved to Koch territory and gained unassailable mass following throughout Assam. French artists have visited Kamalabari Sattra and have studied Ankiya Nat and have got Parijata Haran, translated in to French and have performed it at Shankaranand Kalakshetra at Guwahti. He blessed me.Dr sunil Kothari is a well known critic and author
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