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Paramparai

Paramparai was founded in 1994 under patronage of His Excellency Shri I.P. Khosla, then Ambassador of India to The Netherlands. In 2006 Paramparai emigrated to the village of Legend, Hungary.

Paramparai is member (N11837) of the International Dance Council CID-UNESCO Paris.

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Founder - Research

Dr. Saskia Kersenboom studied Sanskrit (with Prof.Dr. J. Gonda and Prof. Dr.V Raghavan) and Dravidian languages (with Prof.Dr. K.V. Zvelebil and Pulavar R. Kannan), Hinduism, Indian Drama and Aesthetics (with Dr. S. Gupta) and Indian Musicology (with Dr. E. te Nijenhuis). In 1984 she defended her PhD dissertation Nityasumangali – towards the semiosis of the devadasi tradition of South India with honours at the University of Utrecht (Indology, Dravidian Studies). As Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology she co-directed an International Theme group 'Orality vs. Literacy' at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in 1991-92. Between 1990-2013 Saskia has been Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, subsequently in Linguistic Anthropology, Musicology and Theatre Studies.

Founder - Dance

Saskia has performed extensively as soloist in Europe, America and India. She has taught at conservatories in The Netherlands, Poland and USA and was visiting professor at the Sarojini Naidu School for Performing Arts and Communication at the University of Hyderabad. In 1995 The Foundation for non-Western Music awarded Saskia a grant that enabled her to bring a full orchestra from Tamilnadu to accompany her on a tour of solo-concerts.The Internationaal Danstheater in Amsterdam invited her to collaborate in conceptualisation, scripting and to choreograph in part their evening filling program called 'Bharata Mata', or, 'Mother India'. This very successful music and dance drama toured in 1997 throughout Holland and was performed in part even in India. In 2007-2008 an updated version toured The Netherlands once more. The Kattaikkuttu Kalai Valarcci Munnerra Sangam in Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu, invited Saskia Kersenboom to give a Dasi Attam workshop in January 2001 to its professional performers. In 2012 and 2014 Saskia was member of the international Jury at PECDA - the Prakriti Excellence in Contemporary Dance Award.