Wednesday, July 8, 2020

KATHAK DANCE IN RABINDRIK PSYCHOTHERAPY (August-October, 2020)


CERTIFICATE COURSE (August – October,2020)

KATHAK DANCE IN RABINDRIK PSYCHOTHERAPY
Information Brochure 



1. Background

1.1  Definition of Rabindrik Psychotherapy: Rabindrik Psychotherapy is real time , object oriented, evidence based psychotherapeutic intervention to maintain equilibrium in the consciousness layers – the Murta, Raag and Saraswat. Murta is the seat of filtering sensation, perception. The Raag is seat of emotions, it offers colors on the object to know it’s reliability and finally Saraswat is the seat of harmony.

1.2  Role of therapist: The therapeutic intervention mostly covers different performing arts – dance, drama, music, painting, story, sculpturing etc. The therapist improvises the environment in which individual performs following Rabindra Sangeet and experiences positive emotions. By Rabindrik Psychotherapy, Individual him or herself is able to make cognitive structuring and restructuring personal notions. The harmony of Rabindrasangeet and dance provides therapeutic values. 

1.3  Kathak and Rabindra nritya: Kathak is recognized as classical dance by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The unique feature of Kathak dance is telling stories  through their hand movements and extensive footwork, but most importantly through their facial expressions. Rabindra nritya is mixed form of various classical dances –oddisi, Kathak and Kuchipudi. In this course, attention will be paid to only Kathak and its harmony with Rabindra nritya.

2.      Rabindrik Psychotherapy Research Institute Trust

2.1  Establishment : Rabindrik Psychotherapy Research Institute Trust was  established on 1st July, 2018. The Trust is Educational by nature and to carry out research in Academic field and to promote the study and dissemination of knowledge of Rabindrik Psychotherapy based on the works of Rabindranath  Tagore for the welfare of the community at large without discrimination of caste, creed etc. with objects and constitution are as hereinafter set forth. It is a non-profit Making trust, registered under Indian Trust Act, 1882. 

2.2  Courses : Currently this institute  has more than 100 certified students. This institute is engaged in dissemination of knowledge through academic courses, seminars and workshops. Students are trained here by internal and external faculties. This institute offers a set of skill development courses under project linked Academic assistants. Each course will be beneficial for school teachers, professional counselors, administration and the parents in general. The course is graded from theory, assessment, assignment and project. In each course students will get flavor of Rabindrik Psychotherapy Postulates. RPRIT has conducted more than 65 workshops and some of the workshops are based on Research Methodology, Data Analysis through R-Programming , School Psychology theory based workshop, Regression statistics on school psychology etc. In this institute, there are few ongoing skill development certification courses .Those are Story therapy, Drawing Therapy, Profile Matching based career counselling and Data Analysis through R-Programming.

3. Dance ecology:  Dance is ecological approach of movement expressing words and emotions. Dance changes the surroundings or environment. It is reflective in nature. Dance changes perceiver’s judgment about expressed emotions of dance  and personality characteristics. Here lies it’s effect on Psychotherapy.

4. Topics

4.1   Psychology of Dance: Dance and Psychophysics, Dance and Perception, Visuo-spatial reasoning. Dance and Emotion, Dance and Concept formation.

4.2  Dance Choreography : Facial expression and motion, Psychomotor co-ordination - basic body movement, improvisation and Choreography.

4.3  Rabindrik Psychotherapy: Consciousness layer dynamics, Flow theory, Therapeutic Postulates.

4.4  Kathak : History and Gharana, Footwork, Hand movement, Harmony of body positions and movement. 

5. Course contents and Faculties
Students will learn dance forms, dance combination of Kathak and rabindra nritya and its hermeneutics using two selected songs. Descriptions of the song details are given in the link attached. 

5.2     Teaching pedagogy: hermeneutics of the text, harmonizing lyrics and body movement including facial expression,  footwork and hand movements.
5.3     Modes of teaching: Online lecture, Demonstration and video presentation.
5.4     Preliminaries: Ghungroos (size will be told),  Phone/ laptop/ tab with good internet connection.
5.5     Faculties: Internal and Senior external faculties with experience in kathak and Psychology

6.      Course duration: 8 online classes for each song, total 16 classes, twice a week 1.30 hr. (i.e 2months).

7.      Course fee : Rs. 2000 per participant. It will be paid through online system.
7.1    Application : Online application using Google form

8.      Evaluation : Performance will be evaluated by internal and external experts as per rules.
9.      Certificate : performance based Course completion certificate will be provided to the students on behalf of Rabindrik Psychotherapy Research Institute Trust.


10.  Program schedule:

10.1      Registration starts: 15.7.2020
10.2      Registration closes: 25.7.20.
10.3      Course starts: 2nd August, 2020.
10.4      Course ends : 2nd October, 2020.
10.5      August to October: Theory with practical
10.6      August to October: Solo dance and pursuing other.
10.7      Examination: Theory (50 X 2 months), Practical (50 X 2). (Exam : Theory 50+Practical 50).

11.  Course organizer: Ms. Alokparna Roy,  Project linked Academic assistant, Ph: 8910166714, alokparna2016@gmail.com

12. Teaching Faculties:
Ms. Alokparna Roy
Ms. Sharmila Mukherjee 
Ms. Sudipta Majumder
Ms. Soumitri Bag 
Ms.
Dr. Debdulal Dutta Roy 


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1                  APPENDIX : Description of two Rabindrasangeet and dance forms

1.1    O jonaki, ki sukhe oi daana duti melechho.

Parjaay: Bichitro, Taal: Dadra, Raag: Chhayanat, Written on: 1905, Swarabitan: 51, Notation by: Anadikumar Dastidar.


Tagore song o jonaki ki sukhe oi


O jonaki, ki sukhe oi daana duti melechho.
Aandhar snaajhe boner maajhe ullase praan dhelechho.
Tumi nao to surjo, nao to chandro, tomar taai bole ki kam aanondo.
Tumi aapon jibon purno kore aapon aalo jelechho.
Tomar antore je shokti aachhe taari aadesh pelechho.
Tomar ja aachhe taa tomar aachhe, tumi nao go rini kaaro kaachhe,
Jagote jethay jato aalo sabay aapon kore phelechho.
Tumi aandhar-bnaadhon chhaariye ottho, tumi chhoto hoye nao go chhoto,
Song details

1.2   Parjaay- Bichitro - Bichitro means amazing or very impressive; excellent. There are one hundred and forty songs related to this Bichitro parjaay. This class was created by Rabindranath Tagore. The order of the songs is same as the order are sorted by the poet himself and appear in the book 'Geetabitan'.

1.3   Taal Dadra - This is a Hindustani classical tala (rhythmic cycle), consisting of six beats in two equal divisions of three. The most commonly accepted theka or basic pattern for this tala is dha dhi na, dha tu na. There is a higher emphasis laid on the first swar in comparison the following two, that is, dha - higher emphasis following dhi na and again a higher emphasis on dha following tu na.

1.4   Raag Chhayanat ("shadow or glimpse of Nat"). Chhayanat is a very popular raag whereas its constituent "Chhaya" and "Nat" are rarely sung anymore. Chhayanat is an evening raag, and is sung during the second "prahar" 9PM-12AM.

1.5   Meaning of this song- In this song poet wanted to describe the happiness of a little firefly that has light within. Although the light is not as bright as sun or moon, the sources of life; it can dispel the darkness of a forest during the night and creates mind blowing beauty. From the song poet wanted to explain that every human being born with great possibilities, we should help them to bloom properly. Only then they will glow. Every child has their own individuality, give them space to reveal properly otherwise the possibilities will remain unaccomplished just like in sunlight the beauty of the firefly became banished.

1.6   Kathak dance and psychological outcome- With practicing this song on Kathak, we use different postures, movements, footworks to explain the rasas or different emotions that easily explore the happiness, love, surprise etc within the children and develop the EQ (Emotional Quotient) level, which is very low in the present time due to the pressure of the society. This song will develop their AQ (An adversity quotient is a score that measures the ability of a person to deal with adversities in his or her life) level. They will gradually understand what they actually want in life. It will help them to make decisions and understand their own abilities more accurately.

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2.1   Ae Tobe sahochori hate hate dhori dhori

Tagore song ay tobe sahachori

Aay tabe sahochori, haate haate dhori dhori
Naachibi ghiri ghiri, gaahibi gaan.
Saptamo sure bnaadh tabe taan.
Aan tabe bina -
Raakhibo promode bhori dibanishi monopraan.
Paashoribo bhaabona, paashoribo jaatona, Aan tabe bina -
Dhaalo dhaalo shashodharo, dhaalo dhaalo jochhona.
Saptamo sure bnaadh tabe taan. Somirano, bohe jaa re phule phule dholi dholi.
Utholito geetorabe khule de re monopraan.
Ulosito totini,






 (Parjaay: Prem) Upa-parjaay: Prem-Boichitra, Taal: Tritaal, Raag: Chhayanat, Written on: 1879,
Collection: Robichhaya, Swarabitan: 20, Notation by: Protibha Debi / Jyotirindranath Tagore
  


Song details

2.2  Parjaay and upa- parjaay- Love (Puja means love). Tagore songs refer more to a platonic love than romantic. There are three hundred and ninety five songs under prem parjaay. All these songs are further sub-classified or sub-classes into two upa-parjaays. They are Gaan and Prem-boichitra. Upa-parjaay Gaan has twenty seven songs and Prem-boichitra has the rest. These sub-classes were created by Rabindranath himself with songs specified for each upa-parjaa. In this song poet shows the love for being equal.

2.3  Taal:  Teentaal- is the most common tala of Hindustani music, and is used for drut (fast-tempo) Khyal. The structure of teentaal is so symmetrical that it presents a very simple rhythmic structure against which a performance can be laid.[1]. It is played on Tabla as well as on Percussion instruments. Teentaal has sixteen (16) beats[2] in four equal divisions. The period between every two beats is equal. The first beat out of 16 beats is called sam and the 9th beat is called khali ('empty'). To count the Teentaal, the audience claps on the first beat, claps on the 5th beat, then waves on the 9th beat and lastly again claps on the 13th beat; these three claps give the rhythm its name.

2.4  Raga- Chhayanat ("shadow or glimpse of Nat"). Chhayanat is a very popular raag whereas its constituent "Chhaya" and "Nat" are rarely sung anymore. Its set it apart from the related Kamod, Kedar, Alhaiya Bilawal and Hameer. Chhayanat is an evening raag, and is sung during the second "prahar" 9PM-12AM.

2.5  Song description- Here the poet describe the purity of love, the love of friendship, believe. The happiness of being together- being equal. Doing anything as a team, as the unity is the source of success. In the line 'aan Tobe beena' is showing the leadership qualities without which the group will became powerless. 'saptamo sure bandh Tobe taan' means a good leader only can lead the team at the top of the success. The 5th and 6th line are depicting that all the earthly stress and pain will disappear within a minute in the presence of true friends. Thus, the true love only enables to enjoy the beauty of nature. One can feel the ultimate liberation.


2.6  Psychological outcome- From this present song we can get many positive aspects of life. In todays life where the families became smaller to smallest, children are suffering from pangs of separation which leads towards anxiety- inferiority- loneliness. Those feelings are always discouraging them to do new things or take new challenges. These also prevents them to make friends also, they can't believe each other. Those emotional burdens often guide them in a nagative way and lead them on wrong path. Rabindranath Tagore clearly mentioned here that unity is the biggest strength of life. And if we practice the song meaningfully then we can definitely overcome those emotional barriers and breathe in the open sky.

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