
Movement and Mimesis
The Idea of Dance in the Sanskritic Tradition
Mandakranta Bose(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 17. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 333 pages
978-94-010-5594-9 (ISBN)
Description
The most comprehensive view of the evolution of dancing in India is one that is derived from Sanskrit textual sources. These texts are the basic material that students of the dance in India must examine in order to uncover its past. Since the rebirth of informed interest in dancing in early twentieth century, its antiquity has been acknowledged but precisely what the art was in antiquity remains unclear. Discovering the oldest forms of dancing in India requires, as do other historical quests, a reconstruction of the past and, again as in other historical investigations, the primary sources of knowledge are records from the past. In this case the records are treatises and manuals in Sanskrit that discuss and describe dancing. These are the sources that the present work sets out to mine. These texts taken collectively are more than records of a particular state of the art. They testify to the growth of the theory and practice of the art and thus establish it as an evolving rather than a fixed art form that changed as much in response to its own expanding aesthetic boundaries as to parallel or complementary forms of dance, drama and music that impinged upon it as India's social and political situation changed. When we place the Sanskrit treatises in chronological sequence it becomes clear that the understanding of the art has changed through time, in its infancy as well as in maturer periods.
More details
Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XII, 333 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
528 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-010-5594-9 (9789401055949)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-3594-8
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
12/2012
Springer
€53.49
Available for download

Book
07/1991
1st Edition
Kluwer Academic Publishers
€89.50
Article exhausted; check different version
Content
1. Introduction.- 2. The Literature of Dance.- 3. The N?tya??stra and the Concept of Dance.- 4. L?sya: A Dramatic Art.- 5. Nrtya and Upar?paka.- 6. Bandha and Anibandha.- 7. The De?? Tradition.- 8. Conclusion.