Nāṭya, rasa, and abhinaya as semiotic principles in Classical Indian dance
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Mythili Anoop,
Mythili Anoop (b. 1982) is a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology 〈mythilianoop@gmail.com〉. Her research interests include Classical Indian dance, dance and performance studies, and cultural theory. Her publications include “The dancer as ‘symbol’ and symbols in dance: Stephane Mallarmè's ‘ballets’ and Classical Indian dance” (with M. Malshe, 2010).
Abstract
The concepts of nāṭya, rasa, and abhinaya that were proposed in the context of Classical Indian theatre are invoked by the practitioners and scholars of classical Indian dance even today. They acknowledge and bestow a special status to theatrical communication. The demarcation of the aesthetic function is also one of the premises in the Prague School structural-semiotic theory. We shall examine the inter-relations between the semiotics of theatre elaborated by Keir Elam, and the conceptual base of classical Indian dance. By reading the Indian concepts through the perspectives of modern semiotics, we attempt to show that although the two theories belong to different traditions of scholarship, there are sites of conceptual convergence.
About the author
Mythili Anoop (b. 1982) is a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology 〈mythilianoop@gmail.com〉. Her research interests include Classical Indian dance, dance and performance studies, and cultural theory. Her publications include “The dancer as ‘symbol’ and symbols in dance: Stephane Mallarmè's ‘ballets’ and Classical Indian dance” (with M. Malshe, 2010).
©[2012] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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