Natyasastra and the Body in Performance
Subtitle: Essays on Indian Theories of Dance and Drama
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780786471782
Subjects: Religion and culture; Performing arts; Art, themes, motives, etc.; Arts, india
Description: "The Natyasastra is an extensive documentation of terminologies, concepts and methodologies. The aesthetic theory of rasa is central to the Natyasastra, a term widely used in recent debates in aesthetics, philosophy, neuroscience and performance practice. This volume presents 14 scholarly essays exploring the Natyasastra from the multiple perspectives of Indian performance studies"--