Music Dance & Drama
RHYTHM OF DANCE THAT GENERATE WITH MUSIC OF THE DRUM
DR ROLAND SILVA MEMORIAL LECTURE
History of drum goes with the history of man. Drum is the principal musical instrument for all three traditional dance forms, up country, low country and Sabaragamuwa that originate with four vowels Thath, Jith, Thom, Nan and their variations.
TRADITIONAL DANCE COSTUMES OF SRI LANKA AND THE ART OF SOMABANDHU VIDYAPATHY
As costume is an out-fit designed and fashioned for a specific and exclusive purpose that is performance.Performances of different types such as dance, opera, ballet, theatre and traditional ritual call for different styles of designs.
SUNIL SHANTHA AND HIS INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO SINHALA MUSIC
Sunil Santha was born on 14 April 1915 in Ja-ela and died in Colombo on 11 April 1981. Although he lived for 65 years, his creative musical life was less than eight years, and yet the impact of these few years composing songs was profound on the Sri Lankan music.
THE DRUM’S THE THING – the Art of traditional drumming and its new directions in the 20th & 21st Centuries
Rekhawa – waking the slumbering sinhala cinema
“27th February 2014 – “Rekhawa – waking the slumbering Sinhala cinema” by Prof. Asoka de Zoysa. The lecture was held on Thursday the 27th February at 6.30p.m at the HNB Towers Auditorium. 479, T.B. Jayah Mawatha, Colombo 10.
Evolution of music in sinhala theatre
Portuguese-speaking communities in Sri Lanka
Dances of Sri Lanka
Heritage of Sinhala Music
The Heritage of Sinhala Music by Dr. Tissa Abeysekera