12 Oct 2020
On the 12th of October, Dr. Choodamani Nandagopal (Art Historian, UNESCO fellow, Tagore National fellow at the /national Museum gave the keynote address on "Research in Performing Arts - Current Trends and Significance. She is awarded four International and two National Research Fellowships, including the first scholar to receive the UK Visiting Nehru Fellowship at Victoria & Albert Museum London, UNESCO Silk Road Fellowship at Paris, UNSW Senior International Fellowship Sydney and Exeter Visiting Professor Research Fellowship UK. Her first National Fellowship was from ICHR for her research on Kalyana Chalukyan Temples.
She served as Academic Head of IGNCA Southern Regional Centre Bangalore during 2003-2007, initiated several projects at that time and one prestigious project among them is ‘Research and Documentation of Temple Traditions of Cheluvanarayanasvami Temple Melukote’. This publication ‘Ritual Enactment’ is under print. At Present she is researching on ‘The Symbolism of Sacred space in Early Dravidian Architecture’ ICHR Research Project. She is an author of 10 International publications and five Kannada publications. Her book ‘Dance and Music in Temple Architecture’, 3 volumes of ‘Temple Treasures’, ‘Arts and Crafts of Indus Civilization’, ‘Classical Dance Heritage of Karnataka’ and the recent one, ‘The Art of Image Making’ are in great demand. She has published 70 research papers to her credit and invited as key-note speaker in International conferences. She spoke at length on the trends and trajectory of dance research in India.
