The Teaching Of Kathakali In Australia

Author : Arjun Raina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000213669

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The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia by Arjun Raina Pdf

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.

Author : Josefine Wikström
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000215670

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Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score by Josefine Wikström Pdf

In this study, Josefine Wikström challenges a concept of performance that makes no difference between art and non-art and argues for a new concept. This book confronts and criticises the way in which the dominating concept of performance has been used in art theory and performance and dance studies. Through an analysis of 1960s performance practices, Wikström focuses specifically on task-dance and event-score practices and provides an examination of the key philosophical concepts that are inseparable from such a concept of art and are necessary for the reconstruction of a critical concept of performance, such as "practice", "experience", "object", "abstraction" and "structure". This book will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners across dance, performance art, aesthetics and art theory.

Author : Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351166942

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The Problems of Viewing Performance by Michael Y. Bennett Pdf

The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single audience member, and breaks new ground by, counterintuitively, claiming that viewing performance is not a shared experience. Given that viewers come to each performance with differing amounts and types of knowledge, they each make different assumptions as to how the performance will unfold. Often modified by other viewers and often after the performance event, knowledge of performance is made more accurate by superimposing the experiences and justified beliefs of multiple viewers. These differences in the viewing experience make knowledge surrounding a performance intersubjective. Ultimately, this book explains the how and the why audience members have different viewing experiences. The Problems of Viewing Performance is important reading for theatre and performance students, scholars and practitioners, as it unpacks the dynamics of spectatorship and explores how audiences work.

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Christel Weiler,Torsten Jost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000411201

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Dramaturgies of Interweaving by Erika Fischer-Lichte,Christel Weiler,Torsten Jost Pdf

Dramaturgies of Interweaving explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance, and other arts. Merging strategies of audience engagement originating in different cultures, dramaturgies of interweaving are creative methods of theater and art-making that seek to address audiences across cultures, making them uniquely suitable for shaping people’s experiences of our entangled world. Presenting in-depth case studies from across the globe, spanning Australia, China, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, the US, and the UK, this book investigates how dramaturgies of interweaving are conceived, applied, and received today. Featuring critical analyses by scholars—as well as workshop reports and artworks by renowned artists—this book examines dramaturgies of interweaving from multiple locations and perspectives, thus revealing their distinct complexities and immense potential. Ideal for scholars, students, and practitioners of theater, performance, dramaturgy, and devising, Dramaturgies of Interweaving opens up an innovative perspective on today’s breathtaking plurality of dramaturgical practices of interweaving in theater, performance, dance, and other arts, such as curation and landscape design.

Author : Annie Holt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429619984

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Modernizing Costume Design, 1820–1920 by Annie Holt Pdf

Annie Holt identifies the roots of contemporary Euro-American practices of costume design, in which costumes are an integrated part of the dramaturgy rather than a reflection of an individual performer’s taste or status. She argues that in the period 1820–1920, as part of the larger project of modernism across the artistic and cultural field, the functions of "clothing" and "costume" diverged. Onstage apparel took on a more specific semiotic task, acting as a fresh channel for the flow of information between the performer, the literary text, and the spectator. Modernizing Costume Design traces how five kinds of artists – directors, performers, writers, couturiers, and painters – made key contributions to this new model of costume design. Holt shows that by 1920, costume design shifted in status from craft to art.

Author : María José Martínez Sánchez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000077322

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Dynamic Cartography by María José Martínez Sánchez Pdf

Dynamic Cartography analyses the works of Rudolf Laban, Lawrence Halprin, Anne Bogart, Adolphe Appia, Cedric Price, Joan Littlewood, and Hélio Oiticica. They are practitioners who have worked on different areas of enquiry from the existing relations between body and space through movement, events, or actions but whose work has never been presented from this perspective or in this context. The work and methodologies set up by these practitioners enable us to develop a practice-based exploration. Some of the experiments in the book – Micro-actions I and II – explore the presence of the body in the space. In Kinetography I and II, Laban’s dance notation system – kinetography – is used to create these dynamic cartographies. Kinetography III proposes the analysis of an urban public space through the transcription of the body movement contained on it. The series Dynamic Cartographies I, II, and III analyses movement in geometrically controlled spaces through the Viewpoints techniques by Anne Bogart. Finally, Wooosh! and Trellick Tales present two projects in which performance is applied in order to analyse and understand urban and architectural space.

Author : Amit Sarwal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000625509

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The Celestial Dancers by Amit Sarwal Pdf

The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularization of Manipur’s Hindu dances in Australia. Tradition has it that the people of Manipur, a northeastern state of India, are descended from the celestial gandharvas, dance and music blessed among them as a God’s gift. The intricately symbolic Hindu dances of Manipur in their original religious forms were virtually unseen and unknown outside India until an Australian impresario, Louise Lightfoot, brought them to the stage in the 1950s. Her experimental changes through a pioneering collaboration with dancers Rajkumar Priyagopal Singh and Ibetombi Devi modernized Manipuri dance for presentation on a global stage. This partnership moved Manipur’s Hindu dances from the sphere of ritualistic temple practice to a formalized stage art abroad. Amit Sarwal chronicles how this movement, as in the case of other prominent Indian classical dances and dancers, enabled both Manipuri dance and dancers to gain recognition worldwide. This book is ideal for anyone with an interest in Hindu temple dance, Manipur dance, cross-cultural collaborations and the globalizing of Indian Classical Dance. The Celestial Dancers is a comprehensive study of how an exceptional Hindu dance form developed on the global stage.

Author : Amit Sarwal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000761993

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The Dancing God by Amit Sarwal Pdf

The Dancing God: Staging Hindu Dance in Australia charts the sensational and historic journey of de-provincialising and popularising Hindu dance in Australia. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, colonialism, orientalism and nationalism came together in various combinations to make traditional Hindu temple dance into a global art form. The intricately symbolic Hindu dance in its vital form was virtually unseen and unknown in Australia until an Australian impresario, Louise Lightfoot, brought it onto the stage. Her experimental changes, which modernised Kathakali dance through her pioneering collaboration with Indian dancer Ananda Shivaram, moved the Hindu dance from the sphere of ritualistic practice to formalised stage art. Amit Sarwal argues that this movement enabled both the authentic Hindu dance and dancer to gain recognition worldwide and created in his persona a cultural guru and ambassador on the global stage. Ideal for anyone with an interest in global dance, The Dancing God is an in-depth study of how a unique dance form evolved in the meeting of travellers and cultures.

Author : Phillip B. Zarrilli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0203265645

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Kathakali Dance-drama by Phillip B. Zarrilli Pdf

Author : Louise Lightfoot
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443892582

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Louise Lightfoot in Search of India by Louise Lightfoot Pdf

Today, Indian dance in Australia is represented by professional dance artists, companies, schools, and amateur community groups. They have, over the years, performed both traditional classical works as well as Bollywood pieces, and participated in various dance and cultural festivals organised throughout Australia. Louise Lightfoot, an Australian architect turned ballet teacher, is credited with successfully promoting a range of Indian classical dance forms. Lightfoot as a dedicated impresario for Ananda Shivaram, Rajkumar Priyagopal Singh, and Ibetombi Devi, urged Australian audiences not to see Indian dance as just an ancient, mysterious, and spiritual art form, but try to truly understand the value of this complex art of Indian dance and culture in order to strengthen cultural bonds. This book brings together Lightfoot’s thirty-three essays, reflecting her broader worldview as a dancer, choreographer, and impresario. Louise’s essays segue into each other and echo her various encounters with India and its diverse cultural conditions, beliefs and philosophies.

Author : Mulk Raj Anand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Mohiniyattom (Dance)
ISBN : NYPL:33433079680025

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Kathakali by Mulk Raj Anand Pdf

Author : Amit Sarwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0429294115

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The Dancing God by Amit Sarwal Pdf

"The Dancing God: Staging Hindu Dance in Australia charts the sensational and historic journey of de-provincialising and popularising Hindu dance in Australia. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, colonialism, orientalism and nationalism came together in various combinations to make traditional Hindu temple dance into a global art form. The intricately symbolic Hindu dance in its vital form was virtually unseen and unknown in Australia until an Australian impresario, Louise Lightfoot, brought it onto the stage. Her experimental changes, which modernized Kathakali dance through her pioneering collaboration with Indian dancer Ananda Shivaram, moved the Hindu dance from the sphere of ritualistic practice to formalized stage art. Amit Sarwal argues that this movement enabled both the authentic Hindu dance and dancer to gain recognition worldwide and created in his persona a cultural guru and ambassador on the global stage. Ideal for anyone with an interest in global dance, The Dancing God is an in-depth study of how a unique dance form evolved in the meeting of travellers and cultures"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015017548192

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Mārg̲ by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Dance
ISBN : UCSC:32106015111104

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Classical and Folk Dances of India by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nirupama Chaturvedi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dance
ISBN : UOM:39015074248652

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Encyclopaedia of Indian Dances by Nirupama Chaturvedi Pdf

This study is an analysis of the presentation of sculptures as fulfilling the dictates of postures defined in the various dance treatises. It also embodies an interlink of textual literary and archaeological sources to prove convincingly the unity of inner and outer in the India tradition