Kalamandalam Amaljith
Senior Artist cum teacher,
The International Centre for Kathakali, C-20, Qutab Institutiomal Area,
New Delhi – 110016
Ph:09868025019
E mail –
amaljithkalamandalam@yahoo.co.in |
At
the age of 12 yrs he started learning Kathakali under his grandfather Guru
Champakulam Pachu Pillai and later Completed three years Preliminary course at
Kudamaloor Kalakendram under Guru Kudamaloor Karunakaran Nair, Guru Mathoor
Govindan kutty, Kalamandalam Ramakrishnan and Kalamandalam Murali. After his
initial training he joined Kerala Kalamandalam, Trichur Kerala and Passed 6
year diploma and 2 year post diploma in kathakali vesham.
Joined
The International Centre for Kathakali, New Delhi as a Teacher-cum-Artiste in
2000. He has worked under the guidance of
the then Principal Shri. Sadanam P. V. Balakrishnan. He has been teaching students in the Centre and has
performed extensively in India and abroad like USA, Thailand, Netherland,
Spain, Kazakistan, Pakistan, France, Italy etc. Has performed in the Fusion
Programme of Kendra Sangeet Natak Academy, incorporating five classical dance
forms of India in “Incredible India” in New York in 2009. Has performed in the “International Film Festival
2010” in Goa .
During
this tenure with the Centre, he has performed various characters of Ramanaya
& Mahabharata as well as stories like William Shakespeare’s “Othello &
Macbeth”, a Nigerian Play ‘Sakara”, ”Kalevala” a folklore from Finland etc. He
has done equal justice to all veshams such as Pacha, Kathi, Kari, Tadi &
Minuku.
He has also extended his services for
Lecture demonstrations of CCRT in Delhi & Hyderabad; workshop in Spain
& teachings for various institutions such as National School of Drama in
Delhi. He
is Certified as ‘B’ Grade artiste of “Delhi Doordarshan”.
Received
scholarship from Department of Culture (Government of India) in1997 and Junior
Fellowship from Department of Culture (Government of India) for the period
2000-2002 (“Decline & fall in Kathakali Training - The Role of
Institutionalisation”.)
He
was awarded the ‘Ustad Bismillah Khan
Yuva Puraskar’ 2010 from Sangeet
Natak Academi ,New Delhi, ‘Natana
Praveena’ award from Dr. Guru Gopinath Trust, Kottayam in the year 2011 and
the ‘KPS Menon Award’ for the best
student in the year 1992-93 at Kerala kalamandalam.