And this is to be created by the magician dancers of
our soil ( Mr.Channa Wijayawardena – Mr.Chandana Wickramasinghe)
Arts create the world;
it brings the world before you. Traditional
forms of arts are not ‘the fashion of the ‘OLD GENERATION’ it is the ‘moving ahead’
‘strategies’ for the ‘youngsters’ of the today’s generation.
If the ‘young’ does not understand or if they are not
interested in learning the ‘traditions’ or the traditional forms of arts ‘what
can we do? ‘ Do you think that ‘awareness’ on this particular subject ‘a solution’?
I watched recently on ‘CCTV’ – ‘Culture Express’. ( July 07, 2012)I watched
the clips that they have made interviewing the ‘young Chinese’. I was not surprised to hear some of the
answers of the respondents/viewers.
Their views on ‘The Traditional Chinese Opera’ are interesting
and specifically their ideas on this particular form of art ‘KUNQU’ OPERA’
lead my thoughts towards a different direction.
It is the ‘grate Chinese wall’ that we aware of most. And
may be the Chinese are aware of our traditional forms of arts thanks to the ‘paramparika
(the teachers who still engaged in protecting the traditional forms of our art
and crafts over generations and generations) guruwaru ( teachers of different
forms of arts of our country)’ ‘ Suramba’ Guranunnanse (teacher =
gurunnanse this is a honorary word that we the Sinhalese use to respect the
teachers who engaged in protecting and performing the traditional dancing items
in the past) is one of them ( gurunnanse is sort of a head master – I hope my
teachers would agree to my explanation about ‘gurunnnase’)
And mostly we do not see the ‘paramparika narthana (dancing)
guruwaru ( teachers) performing on famous stages of the world ( except few- we
have a world full of traditional dancers who are doing their role not on
popular screens like television or cinema or on popular open stages etc but they
are helping and sharpening the movements of their golayo ( the students)
Thanks to few modern yet the teachers who love the
traditional forms of arts of the soil of our motherland, the creators like ‘
Chandana and channa’ the world
understands our true spirit of some of the traditional forms of dancing.
CONGRATULATIONS to you Sir! Channna Wijayawardena for
winning a worldly valuable ‘award’ for the performances of your young team from
the world of admirers and fans/artists. (Your very recent achievement)
We know China but I know a little about such forms of
art like Qunqu opera.
Art and culture is a key and a bridge sometimes to
promote or improve the relationships we have between the two countries I thought.
art is never a barrier or a wall to promote such things between countries. this is a popular saying but I like to remind
the world that we are very rich in different forms of traditional forms of arts
and crafts so come and visit our country at least once.
And this can be a bridge that link two countries of the
world together and also this will prove ‘art is a bridge to wonder of Asia’
Contact Ministry of Economic development / Department
of Tourism Authority (SLTDA)for more information.
So very few
youngsters think that according to CCTV -
China the viewers or the watchers of the traditional forms of arts is
mostly done by the old generation 40 -50 if I am not mistaken the figure I saw
on the screen is not incorrect.
Yes that can be very true ‘ they ( the older
generation) have the responsibility’ to carry forward these forms of traditional arts and keep them
in a safe place for the youngsters to watch later when ever they want to study/refer
‘secondary data’ or ‘literature reviews’ before writing their ‘PhD - dissertation
on ‘Traditional forms of arts of the South Asian/ Asian part of the world’. May
be Mr. Tissa Nagoda Withana could help the other older generation like us
teaching ‘his method of protecting old
Sinhalese films’ and now happy to see Mr. Haren (?) Nagodawithana is involved
in the same effort apart from the ‘National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka’.
I loved ‘David Caradine’ mainly because of his
performance in ‘Kung Fu’ tele series. That was a brilliantly done tele - series
which was produced based on the knowledge of traditional ‘Kung fu’. If I am
correct the actor lived more than 80 years (looked so young in his
performances)
We know Jackie
Chang and Jet Lee not because of Traditional Opera or Jackie Chang’s
performance with Mallika Sherawat (Indian actress who went to Hollywood and walked
along the red carpet) because of their ‘actions/performances in action films’
Lucy Liu, Michelie YEOH I have seen them performing in
big Screen.
Unfortunately we are not aware of the traditional dancers of ‘QUNQU
opera’
Samabaragamuwa is a huge heritage of our soil. The people
and the performers/dancers of this part our motherland understand the rhythmic
patterns of the traditional forms of dancing. ‘Sabaragamuwa’
Our cultures can do wonders using the two different
forms of arts blending with the knowledge of our dancers/teachers’ using the
techniques and rhythms of two beautiful form of art.
What do you Say? Chandana Sir and Channa Sir?
Ni shuo pu tong hua hai shi guang dong hua? (Do you Speak mandarin?)
Then things will be so easier I guess.
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