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Demystifying Kathakali

Author: Zarrilli, Phillip B.

Keywords: Kathakali
Dance--India

Issue Date: 1990

Publisher: Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi

Description: K. Bharata Iyer's Kathakali and Eugenio Barba's article 'The Kathakali Theatre' in The Drama Review" these two sources is the most readily available literature in English about Kathakali dance-drama. In addition to these sources, the publication of Grotowski's Towards a Poor Theatre in 1968 (with the reference to Kathakali) effect a mystique which has become associated with Kathakali. The late sixties provided an area ripe for the development of these mysteries of Kathakali, as yoga, the wisdom of the east, spiritually and altered states of consciousness became passwords to a tolerable existence. In present article author tried to demystifying Kathakali approach.

Source: Sangeet Natak Akademi

Type: Article

Received From: Sangeet Natak Akademi


DC Field Value
dc.contributor.author Zarrilli, Phillip B.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-05T01:59:54Z
dc.date.available 2017-07-05T01:59:54Z
dc.date.issued 1990
dc.description.abstract K. Bharata Iyer's Kathakali and Eugenio Barba's article 'The Kathakali Theatre' in The Drama Review" these two sources is the most readily available literature in English about Kathakali dance-drama. In addition to these sources, the publication of Grotowski's Towards a Poor Theatre in 1968 (with the reference to Kathakali) effect a mystique which has become associated with Kathakali. The late sixties provided an area ripe for the development of these mysteries of Kathakali, as yoga, the wisdom of the east, spiritually and altered states of consciousness became passwords to a tolerable existence. In present article author tried to demystifying Kathakali approach.
dc.source Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.format.extent 45-58 p.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
dc.subject Kathakali
Dance--India
dc.type Article
dc.identifier.issuenumber 95
dc.format.medium text
DC Field Value
dc.contributor.author Zarrilli, Phillip B.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-05T01:59:54Z
dc.date.available 2017-07-05T01:59:54Z
dc.date.issued 1990
dc.description.abstract K. Bharata Iyer's Kathakali and Eugenio Barba's article 'The Kathakali Theatre' in The Drama Review" these two sources is the most readily available literature in English about Kathakali dance-drama. In addition to these sources, the publication of Grotowski's Towards a Poor Theatre in 1968 (with the reference to Kathakali) effect a mystique which has become associated with Kathakali. The late sixties provided an area ripe for the development of these mysteries of Kathakali, as yoga, the wisdom of the east, spiritually and altered states of consciousness became passwords to a tolerable existence. In present article author tried to demystifying Kathakali approach.
dc.source Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.format.extent 45-58 p.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
dc.subject Kathakali
Dance--India
dc.type Article
dc.identifier.issuenumber 95
dc.format.medium text