Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair

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When Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair was on Stage, Nothing else Mattered MPS Namboothiri: We can see two schools of acting in modern Kathakali dance-theatre, the first one is the Kunchu Nair school and the other is the Krishnan Nair school. A person in their mid-fifties today might have started watching…
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Discussion of Nala Charitam (c. 1985) Translated and edited by TK Sreevalsan In summer 2013, the photograph of a scene from Nala Charitam was posted in a Facebook Group, ‘Traditional Art Forms of Kerala’ (founded in October 2011, and with over 16,000 members in June 2014), by Mumbai-based physicist…
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As a guru I started learning from Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair in the 1980s. The most important aspect of his classes was his emphasis on ‘bhava’ over moulding ‘mudras’, refining steps or on any technical aspects of Kathakali training. It was amazing to watch the way he used to enact the bhava in…
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Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair (1914–90) ‘Others abide our question. Thou art free': A Genius Remembered in his Centenary Year
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