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The celebration of life, joyous and exultant, fostering song and dance, the splendour of festivals and the bustle of fairs, has been the most characteristic feature of the Indian tradition from time immemorial.
The impulses to the revels have been both secular and sacred. The seasons which signal to man the time for work and the time for relaxation, the commencement of the agricultural cycle with sowing in spring and its culmination with the harvest of golden ...
When the first edition of `Traditions of Indian Flok Dance' was released in 1976 it was universally acclaimed as a path-breaking work. Why? For the first time it provided a clear conceptual framework for comprehending the seemingly simple, but actually complex, panorama of dance traditions generally classified as `folk' and `tribal'. It placed the numerous dance forms in their ecological, regional, linguistic, social and cultural context. By doing so ...
In Indian classical dramaturgy, the performing arts have been called drishya kaavya, visual poetry. For centuries, Indian dramatists and actors have attempted to 'decode' the visual meaning of theatrical terms as described in the Naatyashaastra of Bharata Muni. Rasa Bhaava Darshan, too, attempts to transform text into image, and it brings back into contemporary life the quintessential principles of rasa, rapture and bhaava, sentiment. This book has pooled the ...