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REFLECTING ON PAKISTAN'S RICH AND BEAUTIFUL ARTISTIC TRADITION
Last Updated On 15 December,2018 06:23 pm
Scheduled for 12 seminars over two weeks.
(Web-Desk)-Pakistan has a rich and beautiful artistic tradition reflecting its own piece of the soul of the subcontinent. A tradition that is precariously positioned yet still preserved in a nation struggling to understand its own identity and relationship to art itself. In such a context, the upcoming visit to Pakistan by polymath and art connoisseur Ally Adnan is ever more important, exciting and timely.
Scheduled for 12 seminars over two weeks, Mr. Adnan plans to cover a wonderful array of topics including history and art of Kathak dance, truck art, Qawwali, jewelry, and Ghazal.
In his talks on Kathak at the Asian Study Group in Islamabad, the Institute for Art and Culture in Lahore and the Base Rock Café in Karachi, he will trace the history of the dance form beginning with its foundational text, the Natya Shastra moving on to various elements that go into a kathak performance. The particular lai (rhythm) and taal (beat cycles), which are crucial to understanding and fully appreciating a Kathak performance.
Two talks organized by The Children s Literature Festival on Pakistani Truck Art, one at the National History Museum in Lahore and the other at the British Council in Karachi are geared towards children and will cover the origin and evolution of truck art, the process of decorating trucks, various regional styles, poetry and iconography used in trucks and popularity of the art form.There will also be exercises for attendees to participate and apply what they’ve learned.
Mr. Adnan’s talks on Qawwali are a particular treat given that he has conducted extensive research on Qawwali and Sufism and is considered an expert in the field. He is scheduled to speak at Olomopolo Studios in Lahore and at the Aga Khan University in Karachi. His talk will similarly cover the history of Qawwali, its relation to sufism, the technicalities and the overarching structure of the performance.
This context then significantly embellishes and enriches the demonstrations and performances by the young and prolific Ghayoor-Moiz-Mustafa Qawwal, sons of the famed Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad, who have carried a tradition that has been preserved for 800 years.
Talks on Ghazal, one at Olomopolo Studios in Lahore and the other at T2F in Karachi, will discuss the history and evolution of Urdu poetry, tracing its roots to pre-Islamic Arabia.
Finally, Mr. Adnan will lecture on the history of jewelry as a global phenomenon at Olomopolo Studios in Lahore and at T2F in Karachi, followed by an exhibition of his own uniquely designed one-of a-kind jewelry pieces inspired by Etruscan, Victorian, Hellenic and Greek jewelry.
His art collection contains more than six thousand pieces including original works by Abdul Rehman Chughtai, Ahmed Parvez, Ali Imam, Allah Bux, Bashir Mirza, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Gulgee, Jamil Naqsh, Joan Miro, M F Hussain, Marino Marini, Pablo Picasso, Sadequain, Sayed Haider Raza, and many other artists.
His collection of music contains 80,000 hours of unpublished live recordings of music from South Asia, a portion of which he recently donated to the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan.
He started writing about culture, history and the arts at the age of eleven and has now been writing about music and the performing arts consistently for almost four decades. His articles about Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, Ustad Ghulam Hassan Shaggan, Ustad Shaukat Hussain Khan, Ustad Salamat Ali Khan, Asad Amanat Ali Khan, Iqbal Bano, Malika Pukhraj, Tahira Syed, Nayyar Noor, Shaukat Ali and Madam Noor Jehan constitute an impressive archive of meticulous biographical documentation of Pakistani musicians.
His writings on classical music form a valuable treatise on the theory, culture and practice of music in South Asia. It is no wonder then that Ally is a go-to speaker for lectures on culture and the arts and has been invited to speak on radio, television and at schools and research symposia all over the world on a regular basis.
Nations and cultures thrive when they are grounded in who they are. Ally Adnan has a treasure trove of knowledge waiting to be realized. The more people who partake in this knowledge exchange the more beauty we can spread and what can be more wonderful than that?
https://dunyanews.tv/en/Entertainme...stan/'s-rich-and-beautiful-artistic-tradition
Last Updated On 15 December,2018 06:23 pm
Scheduled for 12 seminars over two weeks.
(Web-Desk)-Pakistan has a rich and beautiful artistic tradition reflecting its own piece of the soul of the subcontinent. A tradition that is precariously positioned yet still preserved in a nation struggling to understand its own identity and relationship to art itself. In such a context, the upcoming visit to Pakistan by polymath and art connoisseur Ally Adnan is ever more important, exciting and timely.
Scheduled for 12 seminars over two weeks, Mr. Adnan plans to cover a wonderful array of topics including history and art of Kathak dance, truck art, Qawwali, jewelry, and Ghazal.
In his talks on Kathak at the Asian Study Group in Islamabad, the Institute for Art and Culture in Lahore and the Base Rock Café in Karachi, he will trace the history of the dance form beginning with its foundational text, the Natya Shastra moving on to various elements that go into a kathak performance. The particular lai (rhythm) and taal (beat cycles), which are crucial to understanding and fully appreciating a Kathak performance.
Two talks organized by The Children s Literature Festival on Pakistani Truck Art, one at the National History Museum in Lahore and the other at the British Council in Karachi are geared towards children and will cover the origin and evolution of truck art, the process of decorating trucks, various regional styles, poetry and iconography used in trucks and popularity of the art form.There will also be exercises for attendees to participate and apply what they’ve learned.
Mr. Adnan’s talks on Qawwali are a particular treat given that he has conducted extensive research on Qawwali and Sufism and is considered an expert in the field. He is scheduled to speak at Olomopolo Studios in Lahore and at the Aga Khan University in Karachi. His talk will similarly cover the history of Qawwali, its relation to sufism, the technicalities and the overarching structure of the performance.
This context then significantly embellishes and enriches the demonstrations and performances by the young and prolific Ghayoor-Moiz-Mustafa Qawwal, sons of the famed Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad, who have carried a tradition that has been preserved for 800 years.
Talks on Ghazal, one at Olomopolo Studios in Lahore and the other at T2F in Karachi, will discuss the history and evolution of Urdu poetry, tracing its roots to pre-Islamic Arabia.
Finally, Mr. Adnan will lecture on the history of jewelry as a global phenomenon at Olomopolo Studios in Lahore and at T2F in Karachi, followed by an exhibition of his own uniquely designed one-of a-kind jewelry pieces inspired by Etruscan, Victorian, Hellenic and Greek jewelry.
His art collection contains more than six thousand pieces including original works by Abdul Rehman Chughtai, Ahmed Parvez, Ali Imam, Allah Bux, Bashir Mirza, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Gulgee, Jamil Naqsh, Joan Miro, M F Hussain, Marino Marini, Pablo Picasso, Sadequain, Sayed Haider Raza, and many other artists.
His collection of music contains 80,000 hours of unpublished live recordings of music from South Asia, a portion of which he recently donated to the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan.
He started writing about culture, history and the arts at the age of eleven and has now been writing about music and the performing arts consistently for almost four decades. His articles about Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, Ustad Ghulam Hassan Shaggan, Ustad Shaukat Hussain Khan, Ustad Salamat Ali Khan, Asad Amanat Ali Khan, Iqbal Bano, Malika Pukhraj, Tahira Syed, Nayyar Noor, Shaukat Ali and Madam Noor Jehan constitute an impressive archive of meticulous biographical documentation of Pakistani musicians.
His writings on classical music form a valuable treatise on the theory, culture and practice of music in South Asia. It is no wonder then that Ally is a go-to speaker for lectures on culture and the arts and has been invited to speak on radio, television and at schools and research symposia all over the world on a regular basis.
Nations and cultures thrive when they are grounded in who they are. Ally Adnan has a treasure trove of knowledge waiting to be realized. The more people who partake in this knowledge exchange the more beauty we can spread and what can be more wonderful than that?
https://dunyanews.tv/en/Entertainme...stan/'s-rich-and-beautiful-artistic-tradition
