Dr Rathna KUMAR
anjali@wt.net
Artistic Director
Samskriti, Society for Indian Performing Arts, USA
Ms Rathna Kumar, Founder-Director, ANJALI Center for Performing Arts, is one of the most awarded and recognized Indian dancers in the US. She is a recipient of numerous Dance, Choreography and Arts-in-Education Grants and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Houston Arts Alliance, and the Texas Commission on the Arts, Certificate of Appreciation (Governor of Texas), Congressional Recognition (Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee), Apple Award (Texas Institute for Arts in Education), Outstanding Asian Award (Houston METRO), Teacher Recognition Certificates (National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts), Outstanding Contribution to Asian Arts (Asian Pacific American Heritage Association), and an Honorary Doctorate in Performing Arts (Telugu University, Hyderabad, India). Ms Kumar is a Board Member of World Dance Houston, Multicultural Artists Collective of Houston, and Houston Asian Arts, and a member of UNESCO’s International Dance Council and Association of Bharatanatyam Artists of India. Currently she is the Artistic Director of Samskriti - Society for Indian Performing Arts, and a Teaching Artist with the Young Audiences of Houston. She also teaches a course in Bharatanatyam at the Rice University.
Creativity, the Arts, and Globalization
“Creativity”, says Rollo May, in The Courage to Create, “arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to a work of art or poem”. Art is a celebration of life, and its function is to make life better. As Henry James put it – “It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance….and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process”.
Art is the communication of ecstasy, an individual's expression of a culture. Today, we see ample evidence of such cultural expressions worldwide, with almost every country becoming a melting pot of diverse cultures, traditions and art forms, thus permanently changing the mosaic of the local arts and education patterns, enhancing them further. This globalization of art has resulted in tremendous creativity, with remarkable collaborations between artists from different cultural traditions and disciplines. It has also helped introduce world music, dance and visual art into school curricula all over the US.
Art builds bridges; art is an extraordinary tool for creative expression. Leonardo da Vinci was right is saying that “Art is the Queen of all sciences, communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world”.
Rathna Kumar博士
Rathna Kumar女士是美國ANJALI演藝中心的創辦人及總監。該中心是美國知名的印度舞藝中心。她曾獲多次舞蹈編舞獎項。亦在德州賴斯大學教授婆羅多舞課程。
創意、藝術及全球化
藝術是流露狂喜，表達自身傳統文化的行為。今天我們看到每個國家都變成不同的文化藝術熔爐，連帶改變本地藝術和教育。全球化使創意蓬勃，不同文化傳統背景的藝術家創造了超卓的協作，也助美國學校課程引入世界的音樂、舞蹈及視覺藝術。
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