Raghunath Manet

Raghunath Manet is a Chorégraphe, Danseur of Bharata natyam, musician and Indian singer . It composes and plays with Dr. Balamurali Krishna. It is one of the largest dancers of bharata natyam, ballet dancing of India of the South. Very appreciated in France and in the world, heir to the tradition of Masters (RAM Gopal) and dancers of temple.

Biography

Raghunath Manet was born with Pondichéry in India, it very early learned and reactualized the bharata natyam while studying with largest (RAM Gopal, Doctor Balamurali Krishna) but also by studying the sculptures and the drawings of the Indian temples such as the temple of Kanchipuram, or that of Villenour.

Dancer, but also choreographer and musician (player of Vinâ, Indian lute), Raghunath Manet is one of the ambassadors of the Indian culture throughout the world.

Heir to the tradition of Shiva, it arrives to France in 1985, and strongly contributes to the development of the bharata.

He thus very quickly will form a whole new generation of dancers of bharata natyam, who will be to some extent in the beginning of the boom of the Bollywood.

Travelling all over the world, there remains very attached to Pondichéry where he creates, in 1998, a school of dance for the orphan Indian children: Sruti Catholic student.

Spectacles

November 2007 in New Morning: Raghunath Manet and archie Shepp, new music creation/Indian dance and jazz
2007: Tri Murti or Seven Dances of Shiva , creation with Michel Portal
2006: duet with Carolyn Carlson within the framework of Lille 3000 with the Colisée of Roubaix
2005: Bollywood Ballet with the Festival of Avignon (with CD and DVD)
2004: album Karnatik with Dr. Balamurali Krishna (at MK2)
2003: Pondichéry , with Indra Rajan, last Bayadère of India to have really carried out the ritual ones in the temples. This spectacle currently makes the round the world tour

Music

Raghunath Manet Gold medal and Prix of vinâ. Virtuoso of this instrument, it combines to perfection dances and music; he is graduate Kalakshetra academy. This academy, located close to Chennai, was founded in the years 1935 per the famous dancer and political woman Rukmini Devi Arundale.

Dancer of bharata natyam

Raghunath Manet adapted the bharata natyam to male morphology. Dance represented traditionally by women, Raghunath Manet will be at the origin of the rebirth of the male version of this dance, recalling with humor that Shiva was a man.

Catalog of films

Perduto amor , film of Free Battiato (2003)
Pondichéry , dance, music and percussions of India
Chidambaram , Raghunath Manet with the Opera-Bastille
Concert of vinâ Evening Ragas
Omkara , dance, music and song, with Didier Lockwood
the Newspaper of the seducer , film of Daniele Dubroux (1996)

Books

carnatic music , foreword of Didier Lockwood, Barbizon, February 2001.

"My meeting with Raghunath Manet, is one of the strong points of my musical, artistic and human life. Dancer and Indian musician of very first plan, Raghunath Manet, with much of talent and intelligence makes it possible its ancestral art to evolve/move and to be melted in the Occidental culture without to lose its identity.

Extremely scholar, this splendid artist is also a historian, and a musicologist impossible to circumvent who with passion and pedagogy, delivers to us the marvellous secrecies of his culture. This work is truly the essential reference for all those which wish to impregnate historical and technical roots of this so demanding art.

One will be able to also feel through this reading all humanity, generosity, the humility and the very great wisdom of its author. Indeed, it is not only one book of history or a theoretical handbook, but more especially a beautiful lesson of philosophy.

My love for India was born at the time of my first rounds in this country, there is more than twenty years. By reading this work, I found with much emotion the so particular and strong feelings which the richness of the Indian culture gets to us. Thanks to Raghunath Manet, I have today the keys necessary to seize all subtlety of it, that he is thanked for it for the bottom of the cœur."

Bayadères

Ouvrage which reports the history of the bayaderes, these Indian women who danced in the temples (most known of them being Indra Rajan, which will occur with Raghunath Manet at the time of a spectacle in Paris in 2003.

Of the temple to the scene

It is a work which reports the work of interpretation and transcription carried out by Raghunath Manet to give again life in Bharata natyam, (research undertaken on the sculptures and drawings of the various temples of India of the South).

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