CONGRATS DR.M.P.P.BORA ,WITH REGARDS KARUNA BHUYAN.
On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 7:45 AM, "Barua Rajen [email protected]
[FriendsofAssamNE]" <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Menaka
Congratulations on your continued accomplishments and achievements.
You are the Pride of Assam. Please keep it up.
Rajenda
On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Menaka PP Bora
[email protected] [FriendsofAssamNE]
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Friends of Assam Members
>
> Sharing some good news...
>
>
> Dr. Menaka PP Bora wins Britain’s coveted Leverhulme Fellowship Award as the
> first Indian Artiste.
>
>
>
> Dr. Menaka PP Bora, a national awardee of Sangeet Natak Akademi Yuva
> Puraskar has won Britain's highly prestigious and coveted Leverhulme
> Fellowship Award 2016 for 3 years to develop her artistic-academic career in
> India, UK and USA. As per the records, the majority of Leverhulme awards are
> usually given in the advancement of scientific, social and technological
> research to male scientists, scholars and academics with a proven record of
> national and global success. First Indian artiste to be awarded for her
> contribution to public engagement in research of humanities, Menaka will be
> researching the contemporary cross-cultural role of Sattriya performance
> traditions in India and global contexts with special reference to launching
> a global archive centre of digital humanities for Assamese arts at key world
> renowned British institutions including Oxford University’s Bodleian
> Library, British Library, British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum among
> others.
>
>
> It is worth mentioning that Dr. Menaka PP Bora has been promoting ‘Assamese
> arts as a Global Brand’ for international audiences through her dance
> performances, film screenings, BBC TV and Radio appearances and talk shows
> in recent years. She is the first Assamese artiste to be invited by the
> British Museum to promote Assam on a global scale and deliver a unique
> lecture and performance series (sold out) on Assam in connection with the
> famous Vrindavani Vastra in March 2016 at the British Museum.
>
>
> Over the years, Dr. Menaka PP Bora, the daughter of the legendary Indira PP
> Bora has played a pioneering role as the young cultural ambassador of Assam
> and India through her global dance tours including a recent tour sponsored
> by ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations), Ministry of Culture, Govt.
> of India to Australia and New Zealand with artists from Barpeta sattra in
> Assam. She has promoted Sattriya dance as a contemporary classical dance
> after research work as a GLOBAL DANCE & MUSIC in the UK, USA, France,
> Vietnam, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand
> among others.
>
>
> Hailed in India as a 'avant garde diva' (The New Indian Express) and 'youth
> icon' (The Hindu), Dr. Menaka PP Bora is a newly appointed Affiliated
> Artist at Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford after completing her PhD
> and post-doctoral research fellowships as a Wingate Scholar in
> Ethnomusicology at Faculty of Music, University of Oxford. Menaka is a
> multi award-winning and highly sought after classical dance soloist,
> choreographer and ethnomusicologist who combines the best of the Eastern and
> Western intellectual traditions having trained in Indian classical dance
> styles in India, ballet and contemporary dance at Laban Centre London.
> Menaka has won Sangeet Natak Akademi Yuva Puraskar (India's most prestigious
> National Award for young artists ). She has an MA in Transnational
> Communications and Global Media from Goldsmiths, University of London. She
> is an elected Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society in London. She was a
> Finalist of BBC Radio 4's Journey of a Life time Award for radio
> broadcasting on music and monks of Assam. She has performed as a soloist in
> prestigious festivals and venues across the world including the The
> Edinburgh Festival, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in NYC, Hanoi Opera
> House in Vietnam, Centre Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Te Papa
> National Museum in New Zealand and appeared as a Guest Speaker on BBC
> Radio's 'World music' programmes, Radio New Zealand and SBS National Radio
> in Australia.
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>
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