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Healing through arts: decoding the Indian paradigm

Author: Singh, Shanta Serbjeet

Keywords: Music
Dance
Drama
Art

Issue Date: 2006

Publisher: Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi

Description: Indian traditional view equates the arts of music and dance with the fifth vedas. The Vedas deal with the nature of phenomena, of the existence of man and other aspects of the vast cosmos. Moreover, the Indian aestheticians and philosophers of dance have always pointed to these art being akin to Yoga and hence their training and teaching too. Classical dance involves both the physical and the neurological halves of the body. Present article is about replacement of raw material in human body continually creating a new physical body, which is at the heart of the Indian belief that the sharira, the body is the link between the earth and the cosmos between humanity and divinity. And to help this body remain healthy, the traditional knowledge of India has identified one major path: the creative impulse. Expression through the arts, music and dance, painting and sculpture, literature and poetry is the pathway that leads to all wellness.

Source: Sangeet Natak Akademi

Type: Article

Received From: Sangeet Natak Akademi


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dc.contributor.author Singh, Shanta Serbjeet
dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-18T03:28:38Z
dc.date.available 2017-07-18T03:28:38Z
dc.date.issued 2006
dc.description.abstract Indian traditional view equates the arts of music and dance with the fifth vedas. The Vedas deal with the nature of phenomena, of the existence of man and other aspects of the vast cosmos. Moreover, the Indian aestheticians and philosophers of dance have always pointed to these art being akin to Yoga and hence their training and teaching too. Classical dance involves both the physical and the neurological halves of the body. Present article is about replacement of raw material in human body continually creating a new physical body, which is at the heart of the Indian belief that the sharira, the body is the link between the earth and the cosmos between humanity and divinity. And to help this body remain healthy, the traditional knowledge of India has identified one major path: the creative impulse. Expression through the arts, music and dance, painting and sculpture, literature and poetry is the pathway that leads to all wellness.
dc.source Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.format.extent 10-25 p.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
dc.subject Music
Dance
Drama
Art
dc.type Article
dc.identifier.issuenumber 1
dc.identifier.volumenumber 40
dc.format.medium text
DC Field Value
dc.contributor.author Singh, Shanta Serbjeet
dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-18T03:28:38Z
dc.date.available 2017-07-18T03:28:38Z
dc.date.issued 2006
dc.description.abstract Indian traditional view equates the arts of music and dance with the fifth vedas. The Vedas deal with the nature of phenomena, of the existence of man and other aspects of the vast cosmos. Moreover, the Indian aestheticians and philosophers of dance have always pointed to these art being akin to Yoga and hence their training and teaching too. Classical dance involves both the physical and the neurological halves of the body. Present article is about replacement of raw material in human body continually creating a new physical body, which is at the heart of the Indian belief that the sharira, the body is the link between the earth and the cosmos between humanity and divinity. And to help this body remain healthy, the traditional knowledge of India has identified one major path: the creative impulse. Expression through the arts, music and dance, painting and sculpture, literature and poetry is the pathway that leads to all wellness.
dc.source Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.format.extent 10-25 p.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
dc.subject Music
Dance
Drama
Art
dc.type Article
dc.identifier.issuenumber 1
dc.identifier.volumenumber 40
dc.format.medium text