Introduction
Yakshagana is a rare and unique traditional theatre of Karnataka state in India and has a recorded history of more than five centuries. It is a rich artistic blend of racy music, forceful dance, extempore speech and gorgeous costumes, this art combines the features of opera as well as drama, the characteristics of moral education and mass entertainment. Propagation and preservation of traditional arts is one of the challenges of modern world that is fast changing, making everything transient in the worldly sense. Art cannot survive without generous patronage and art cannot grow without sense for good taste. Both these require unified efforts of all art lovers. We should try to make Yakshagana a world heritage. Society has responsibility towards art and artists.
Yakshagana.com was launched on the World Wide Web on 11th March 2000. A pioneer effort to create a Cultural Portal of Coastal Karnataka was conceived & produced by Vasudeva Aithala. Dr. M.Prabhakara Joshy a scholar, teacher, critic, author and performer is the Co-Founder, Director and Chief Editor of the this portal.
Yakshagana
Other Traditional Theatre
Yakshagana is closely related to many similar traditional operatic art forms all over the country and South East Asia like Ankhia Nata –Bhaona of Assam, Parahlada Nata of Odisha, Jathra of Bengal, therukoothu of Tamilnadu, Kathakali of Kerala.
Bhagavatham forms of Andhra region, Ramayana dances of Bali, Vietnam, Cambodia, and even the Chinese opera and so on This section tries to examine these sister and cousin arts, to promote a better understanding of Yakshagana and other art forms to view them in a wider perspective.
Research
Research and study is an important component of art academies. Yakshagana research has a history of a century.The past one hundred years have produced a number of high standard papers, findings, studies and documentations. Including doctoral work. We try to present these studies here – in two ways. brief summary of a work to draw attention. Essays on research projects, findings and discussions, Including new and old publications.
ಸಂಶೋಧನೆ:
ಸಂಶೋಧನೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅಧ್ಯಯನಗಳು ಕಲೆಯ ಶೈಕ್ಷಣಿಕತೆಗೆ, ಅರ್ಥೈಸುವಿಕೆಗೆ ಬಹುಮುಖ್ಯ ಅಂಗಗಳು. ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನ ಸಂಶೋಧನೆಗೆ ಸುಮಾರು ಒಂದು ಶತಮಾನದ ಚರಿತ್ರೆ ಇದೆ. ಈ ಅವಧಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹಲವು ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಟ್ಟದ ಸಂಶೋಧನೆಗಳು, ಅಧ್ಯಯನಗಳು, ದಾಖಲಾತಿಗಳು ನಡೆದಿದ್ದು, ಈಗಲೂ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿವೆ.
ಈ ವಿಭಾಗದಲ್ಲಿ 1) ಹಿಂದಿನ ಅಂತಹ ಕೃತಿಗಳ ಕಡೆ ಗಮನ ಸೆಳೆಯುವ ಕಿರುಬರಹಗಳು.
2) ಹಿಂದಿನ ಮತ್ತು ಹೊಸ ಸಂಶೋಧನ ವಿಚಾರಗಳು, ಲೇಖನಗಳು, ಚರ್ಚೆಗಳು, ಟಿಪ್ಪಣಿಗಳು ಒಳಗೊಂಡಿರುತ್ತವೆ.
Events
Yakshagana, like any lively area of culture, is full of events – programmes, workshops, demonstrations, documentations, anniversaries, honours, art festivals and such academic and celebrative organisations.
We showcase them here briefly – as news and comments.
ವಾರ್ತೆ – ಘಟನೆ :
ಎಲ್ಲ ಸಕ್ರಿಯ ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ರಂಗಗಳಂತೆ ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನವೂ ಘಟನೆ, ವಾರ್ತೆ, ಸಮಾಚಾರಗಳಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿದೆ. ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ, ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ, ಸಭೆ, ಗೋಷ್ಠಿ, ಕಮ್ಮಟ, ದಾಖಲೀಕರಣ, ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವ, ಕಲಾಪರ್ವ, ಸರಣಿಗಳು, ಮಾನ ಸಂಮಾನ, ಸಂಸ್ಮರಣಾದಿಗಳು, ಅಂತೆಯೆ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳ ಸುದ್ದಿಗಳು ಈ ವಿಭಾಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತವೆ.
Review
Yakshagana is a cultural realm that can boast of multifaceted activity – performance, documentation, introductory and critical studies, e productions, photo books, data base indices, Prasanga compositions, hand books and so on.
We attempt, in this section, to outline and review such important works.
ಪರಿಚಯ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆ
ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನವೆಂಬುದು ಬಹುಮುಖಿ ಕ್ರಿಯಾಕ್ಷೇತ್ರ. ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನದ ಜೊತೆಗೆ – ದಾಖಲಾತಿ, ಪರಿಚಯಾತ್ಮಕ ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ರೌಢ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಗ್ರಂಥಗಳು, ವಿದ್ಯುನ್ಮಾನ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ, ಚಿತ್ರಸಂಗ್ರಹ, ಕೋಶ-ಸೂಚಿಗಳು, ಪ್ರಸಂಗ ರಚನೆಗಳು, ಕೈಪಿಡಿಗಳು ಮೊದಲಾದವು. ಈ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರವು ಹೆಮ್ಮೆಪಡುವ ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದಿವೆ.
ಈ ವಿಭಾಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಂತಹ ಗ್ರಂಥ, ದಾಖಲಾತಿ, ಕೃತಿಗಳ ಪರಿಚಯ- ವಿಮರ್ಶೆ ಇರುತ್ತದೆ.
Karavali
Karavali means the coast. This section is for the cultural richness of the coastal Karnataka area.
The area between Kali and Karwar, from the Arabian sea to the Western Ghats. This region has great variety and rich cultural flowerings. Many languages, Kannada, Tulu, Malayalam, Konkani, Marathi, Byari, Urdu live here harmoniously.
The area can boast of a being real model of natural Globalization. Karavali has a beautiful landscape great tradition in learning in temple art, in literature, in food, rituals, industry, and so on
This section tries to examine the various aspects and specialties of Coastal Karnataka .
Profile
Cultural forms exist, express, grow and excel through persons and institutions. They are the ‘holders’ of the arts and forms, the Kaladharas. Through their learning, knowledge, creativity commitment and service they contribute, to continue it, to enrich it and hand it down to posterity.
In this section we profile briefly, – artists, practitioners, experts, critics, connoisseurs, poets, researches, organizers and organizations, art institutions – that are iconic and art are the pride of this field.
ಕೃತಿ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆ:
ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ಪ್ರಕಾರಗಳ ಇರುವು, ಉಳಿವು, ಅಭಿವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ, ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ, ಉನ್ನತಿಗಳ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ಮತ್ತು ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳಿಂದ. ಅವರೆ ಕಲಾಧರರು. ಜ್ಞಾನ, ಅಧ್ಯಯನ, ಸೃಜನ ಕಾರ್ಯ, ಬದ್ದತೆ, ಸೇವೆ, ಮತ್ತು ಕೊಡುಗೆಗಳಿಂದ ಅವರು ಕಲೆಯ ಮುಂದುವರಿಕೆ, ಶ್ರೀಮಂತಿಕೆ, ಮುಂದಿನ ಜನಾಂಗಕ್ಕೆ ನೀಡಿಕೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಕಾರಣೀಭೂತರು.
ಈ ವಿಭಾಗದಲ್ಲಿ ನಾವು ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನದ ಹೆಮ್ಮೆಯೆನಿಸುವ ಅಂತಹ ಕಲಾವಿದರು, ಕವಿಗಳು, ಪ್ರವೃತ್ತರು, ತಜ್ಞರು, ವಿಮರ್ಶಕ, ಸಂಶೋಧಕರು, ಪೋಷಕರು ಮತ್ತು ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ ಸಂಘಟನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಚಿಕ್ಕದಾಗಿ ಪರಿಚಯಿಸುತ್ತೇವೆ.
Thalamaddale
Thalamaddale is an indoor form of Yakshagana It is Yakshagana without dance and costume, an oral form with a song word combination depicting story episodes (Prasangas) with a very high level of improvised dialogue system thalamaddale is model of great creativity in oral art.
This section is for the understanding thalamaddale and will also feature audio video exhibits of that art.