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| Inaugurated in January 1953 by the first President
of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Sangeet Natak Akademi is India's
first National Academy for music, dance and drama. It has been
'functioning as the apex body of the performing arts in the
country, preserving and promoting the vast intangible heritage
of India's diverse culture expressed in the forms of music,
dance and drama'. An autonomous body of Ministry of Tourism
and Culture, Government of India, the Akademi coordinates and
collaborates with different government art institutions and
art academies of every state and territory as well as with major
cultural institutions of the country. |
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| Fully funded by Government for implementation
of its schemes and programmes, Sangeet Natak Akademi organizes
numerous programmes and cultural activities like National and
Regional Festivals, Yuva Utsav and seminar and workshops on
music, dance and theatre. It also arranges performances by renowned
veterans and talented young artists round the year through various
training programmes and activities. The Akademi has also established
teaching institutions like National School of Drama and Kathak
Kendra in Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Akademi in
Imphal. The Akademi in order to recognize and appreciate the
performances confers awards on the artists, which are considered
to be the highest national recognition for an artist. |
| Some of the major attractions of the Akademi
are its museum, audio-visual archive and library. The museum
is a must see place of the Akademi as the main gallery of it
has over 200 musical instruments on display. It is a very interesting
place and will be an enriching experience even for those who
are not music lovers. The audio-visual archive is the largest
and most extensive collection in India on performing arts. It
is regarded as a sacred place for all the researchers of performing
arts as it has a very rare collection of recorded works of maestros
of these fields. The library is another popular place for scholars,
students and researchers of the Performing arts field as this
unique multilingual library has around 22000 books covering
almost all the aspects, critical development and trends in music,
theatre and dance. The library consists of books in many regional
languages apart from English and Hindi. |
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