The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia Mirroring the Master.
This book tells the story of teaching Kathakali, a seventeenth century Indian dance-drama, to contemporary performers in Australia. A rigorous analysis and detailed documentation of the teaching of multiple learners in Melbourne, both in the group workshop mode and one-on-one, combined with the auth...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Mirroring not mimicking the master
- Kathakali actor training: key aesthetic features
- The sociopsychophysical and "the old social" in Kathakali training
- Kathakali in context
- A "practitioner researcher"
- Methodology
- Chapter 2 The guru shishya or master disciple relationship
- The imitative methodology of the guru shishya tradition
- Guru shishya in Kathak dance pedagogy
- The practitioner researcher in a one-on-one training session
- The basic posture.
- Presence and Kathakali training: the basic posture
- Absence and Kathakali training
- Mirroring the Kathakali guru's basic posture
- Kannusadhakam: the eye exercise
- Chuzhippu
- Kaal sadhakam or footwork
- Mirroring the master: observing the master teach a star pupil
- Observing bodies in communion
- Kathakali's stable methodology of embodied transformation
- The guru shishya being-in-the-world, feet touching ritual
- Chapter 3 From mythology to reality: Western perceptions of the exotic Kathakali body
- Phillip Zarrilli and the de-mystification of Kathakali.
- Zarrilli and his mind/body duality
- Left- and right-side stage conventions
- A separation of the internal and external processes of actor training
- Kathakali and the Natyashastra
- The sophistication of the untouchable theyyam performer
- Eugenio Barba and the Odin Teatret
- A foot-centric conflict
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Teaching multiple bodies in Australia
- The mirror neuron system
- The human skin and the act of empathy
- The imitative methodology in group work
- The intracultural exercise
- Chapter 5 Working one-on-one with Helen Smith and Peter Fraser.
- Helen, Peter and I: working as a threesome
- Working one-on-one: an informal "daily" start to the work
- The mirror box
- Communing with Helen one-on-one: an episode from the author's "diary documentary"
- Theory of rasa
- Kathakali rasaabhinaya and the social nature of bhava
- Creative performances by Helen and Peter
- Working with Peter Fraser
- Peter's response to one-on-one training
- Kathakali mirroring and the mirror neuron system
- Chapter 6 Caste, Kathakali and its "gestures of embodied aggression"
- Background
- A case study: "The Flower of Good Fortune"
- Namboodiri dominance of the social weave
- Untouchability and the caste-based social weave
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7 Performing Kathakali in Australia
- Adapting the traditional training curriculum
- The Magic Hour and the innercultural practice of performing Kathakali in Australia
- Performing Kathakali's gestures of embodied aggression
- Chapter 8 Kathakali for the global performer and researcher
- Guru shishya: new possibilities
- One-on-on actor training
- Historiography of Kathakali performance
- Archetype
- Kathakali abhinaya and Stanislavsky.