Manjunan Gnanaratnam
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  • Albany, NY
  • United States
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Multi-Instrumentalist, Technologist, Composer, Developer & Theorist, Manjunan Gnanaratnam, works as an Interdisciplinary Artist within all contexts of Modern, Post-Modern, Contemporary and Experimental Dance. With a career spanning 35+ years, he is considered one of the foremost thinkers on the relationship between Sound and Movement.....

As a Musician, I am only inspired by Complex Human Movement Structures. Modern, Post Modern, Contemporary and Experimental Dance (Western Movement Vocabulary) and its history of Multidisciplinary Complexities, Kinesthetic Ideologies, Collaborative Processes and Dialogs, and an environment of continued Avant-Garde thinkings and explorations, have long provided me a platform, incomparable to anything else, where my creativity and imagination can exist freely. -Manjunan Gnanaratnam, 2005.
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Research:
1. Post Modern Dance: The catalyst for deviation and extension in Post Structural Sound, Choreoperiodicity, Optimum Creative Dialog and the Dunnist Period in Music"- Manjunan Gnanaratnam. Composer, Barker Center for Dance, Dept. of Theater Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. USA. © [2004]

2. The APTAR process and the Choreographic Quotient in Dance.© [2012]
A process, to negotiate 21st century multidisciplinary collaborations, while maintaining the choreographic center.

3. The Optimum Creative Dialogue Phenomenon in Sound and Movement interactions.

4. Dance & Music: The 21st Century Direction.
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Founder: OPEN SOURCE DANCE- A comprehensive methodology that provides a transitional environment, from student to professional, for the 21st century contemporary dancer. © [2007]
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Work referenced in :
"Making Music for Modern Dance: Collaboration in the formative years of a New American Art"
- ©2011, Author, Katherine Teck
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Member: International Guild of Musicians in Dance.
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Dance and Music: The 21st Century Direction

Posted on March 23, 2020 at 6:00pm 0 Comments

Dance and Music: The 21st Century Direction.

Manjunan Gnanaratnam.

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The Avant-Garde of any art form is spearheaded by its Artists, and then documented by its Scholars, Theorists & Historians. During the 20th Century, Dance [Concert Dance], with the Kinesthetic Body as its instrument, Deconstruction as its primary process for investigations, Movement Vocabulary as its language, and Choreography as its…

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