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The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia - Mirroring the Master (Hardcover)
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The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia - Mirroring the Master (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
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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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