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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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