The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia
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The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia

Mirroring the Master

Arjun Raina

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The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia

Mirroring the Master

Arjun Raina

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About This Book

This book tells the story of teaching Kathakali, a seventeenth century Indian dance-drama, to contemporary performers in Australia.

A rigorous analysis and detailed documentation of the teaching of multiple learners in Melbourne, both in the group workshop mode and one-on-one, combined with the author's ethnographic research in India, leads to a unique insight into what the author argues persuasively is at the heart of the art's aesthetic- a practical realisation of the theory of rasa as first articulated in the ancient Sanskrit treatise on drama The Natyashastra. The research references the latest discoveries in neuroscience on 'mirror neurons' and argues for a reconceptualization of Kathakali's imitative methodology, advancing it from the reductive category of 'mimicry' to a more contemporary and complex mirroring which is where its value lies in Australian actor performer training.

The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and dance, intercultural actor training, practice-led research, and interdisciplinary studies of neuroscience and performance.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
9781000213768
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Dance

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. 1 Mirroring not mimicking the master
  8. 2 The guru shishya or master disciple relationship
  9. 3 From mythology to reality: Western perceptions of the exotic Kathakali body
  10. 4 Teaching multiple bodies in Australia
  11. 5 Working one-on-one with Helen Smith and Peter Fraser
  12. 6 Caste, Kathakali and its “gestures of embodied aggression”
  13. 7 Performing Kathakali in Australia
  14. 8 Kathakali for the global performer and researcher
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
Citation styles for The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia

APA 6 Citation

Raina, A. (2020). The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1718710/the-teaching-of-kathakali-in-australia-pdf (Original work published 2020)

Chicago Citation

Raina, Arjun. (2020) 2020. The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1718710/the-teaching-of-kathakali-in-australia-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Raina, A. (2020) The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1718710/the-teaching-of-kathakali-in-australia-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

MLA 7 Citation

Raina, Arjun. The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2020. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.