Dance rabindranath tagore biography in short

The book focuses on Rabindranath Tagore’s association with dance, writes Nityapriya Ghosh

Tagore’s Mystique of Dance

 

Author: Utpal K Banerjee

Publisher: Niyogi, Rs 1500

Even before the two foremost exponents of modern Indian dance, Uday Shankar (1900-1970) and Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904-1986), could set up their dance training institutes, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) made dance an integral part of the education curriculum at Visva Bharati.

The Uday Shankar India Cultural Centre was established at Almora in 1928, Kalakshetra was established by Arundale at Adyar, near Madras (now Chennai) in 1936, and dance was made a part of the syllabus at Visva Bharati in 1925.

The Santiniketan style of painting and sculpture has made its mark just as the Santiniketan style of architecture has attracted attention.

It must be acknowledged that there is no Santiniketan style of dance as such. For Tagore, dance was the physical extension of poetry an