Guru Gopinath is an epic personality of Indian dancing in the twentieth century. He was a great dancer and master of Indian classical dance. It was his early efforts that made the Kerala dance "Kathakali' widely popular and highly acclaimed at home and abroad.
His highest achievement lies in his approach in making "Kathakali" more accessible to teachers, students and audiences. To do this he brought some innovative changes to make a new style of dancing from this ancient dance form known as 'Oriental dance', 'Kathakali Natanam' and later 'Kerala Natanam' (Keralanatanam), without sacrificing its essence and classicism. He was one of the greatest masters and performers of Kathakali.
It was Guru Gopinath who showed the outer world the strength, potentiality and adaptability of classical Indian dance to perform themes and stories other than the Indian mythological, devotional or historical ones. He was a genius to discover the language of humanity, the international language of Indian dancing.
The Institution seeks to spread the benefits of culture and education. To evolve policies and programmes which would enable to make the Institution a distinct one by fostering our composite culture through qualitative expansion of academic studies, training and researches.
To revive 'Keralanatanam' developed by Dr. Guru Gopinath and impart the same to the society irrespective of their age. By providing better training in Indian Classical Dance forms and facilitating studies regarding the art forms, establish a National level research institute in the field of Indian Classical Dance forms. To cooperate with all other institutions and universities for the furtherance of the development and enrichment of Indian Culture especially in the field of Indian Dance.
Guru Gopinath is an epic personality of Indian dancing in the twentieth century. He was a great dancer and master of Indian classical dance. It was his early efforts that made the Kerala dance "Kathakali" widely popular and highly acclaimed at home and abroad. His highest achievement lies in his approach to make "Kathakali" more accessible to teachers, students and audience. And to do this he brought some innovative changes to make a new style of dancing from this ancient dance form known as 'Oriental dance', 'Kathakali Natanam' and later 'Kerala Natanam' (Keralanatanam), without sacrificing its essence and classicism. He was one of the greatest masters and performers of Kathakali.
It was Guru Gopinath who showed the outer world the strength, potentiality and adaptability of classical Indian dance to perform themes and stories other than the Indian mythological, devotional or historical ones. He was a genius to find out the language of humanity, the international language of Indian dancing.