Arjun Raina

The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia

Mirroring the Master

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780367539962
• ISBN-10: 0367539969
• Artikelnr.: 60005670

Autorenporträt

Arjun Raina was trained as an actor at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and as a Kathakali dancer at the International Centre for Kathakali, New Delhi, India. He has been performing and teaching drama and theatre for over 30 years. Arjun holds a PhD in Theater and Performance from Flinders University, Australia and has taught at the National School of Drama, New Delhi and at the Ambedkar and Ashoka Universities, in India.

Inhaltsangabe

Content
Chapter 1
Mirroring not Mimicking the Master
Chapter 2
The guru shishya or master disciple relationship
Chapter 3
From Mythology to reality: Western perceptions of the exotic Kathakali body
Chapter 4
Teaching Multiple Bodies in Australia
Chapter 5
Working One-on-One with Helen Smith and Peter Fraser
Chapter 6
Caste, Kathakali and its "gestures of embodied aggression"
Chapter 7
Performing Kathakali in Australia
Chapter 8
Kathakali for the global performer and researcher
Index