The Indian Cultural Centre is organizing a lecture demonstration ‘Shriti’- Relationship of one act Dance Drama with Bharata Natyam by Dr. Subashini Pathmanathan, eminent scholar and danseuse from Sri Lanka at the Indian Cultural Centre Auditorium, 16/2 Gregory’s Road, Colombo 7, on March 23 at 6 pm.
Dr. Subashini Pathmanathan started her Bharatha Natyam journey at the age of two and a half. Trained under the great maestro, the late, Padmashree Vazhuvoor Ramiahpillai at Vazhuvoorar classical Bharata Natya Centre, Mylapore, and Chennai, Subashini has been conferred the title ‘Natya Kala Shikamani’.
As a performing artiste she has performed in numerous dance festivals in Sri Lanka and around the globe.
She is a well known columnist in Sri Lanka on dance and related topics and has won the Esmond Wickermesinghe award for journalism in 1991. In 2008 she was conferred with the title ‘Kavin Kalayeyal Neeringaar‘ from Bharathidasan University,Thiruchirapalli. She has been teaching at the Indian Cultural Centre Colombo since its inception, in 1998.
Dr. Subashini completed her Master of Philosophy degree in aesthetics at the Punjab University, India, and received a doctorate on ancient Hindu temple sculptures and decorative sculptures of the Polonnaruwa period in relation to classical Bharatha Natyam, from the University of Colombo..