Author: Vasanthy Krishna Rao
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788174532459
Category : Bharata natyam
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Chiefly on Carnatic music composers and compositions; includes an article on Bharatanatyam dance and its relation to Carnatic music.
Indian Music and an Enchanting Amalgam of Dance
Author: Vasanthy Krishna Rao
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788174532459
Category : Bharata natyam
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Chiefly on Carnatic music composers and compositions; includes an article on Bharatanatyam dance and its relation to Carnatic music.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788174532459
Category : Bharata natyam
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Chiefly on Carnatic music composers and compositions; includes an article on Bharatanatyam dance and its relation to Carnatic music.
Indian Music and Swati Tirunal
Author: Vasanthy Krishna Rao
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carnatic music
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Contribution of Svātitirunāḷ, 1813-1846, Maharaja of Travancore and exponent of Carnatic music to Indian classical music.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carnatic music
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Contribution of Svātitirunāḷ, 1813-1846, Maharaja of Travancore and exponent of Carnatic music to Indian classical music.
Encyclopaedia of Indian Dances
Author: Nirupama Chaturvedi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This study is an analysis of the presentation of sculptures as fulfilling the dictates of postures defined in the various dance treatises. It also embodies an interlink of textual literary and archaeological sources to prove convincingly the unity of inner and outer in the India tradition
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This study is an analysis of the presentation of sculptures as fulfilling the dictates of postures defined in the various dance treatises. It also embodies an interlink of textual literary and archaeological sources to prove convincingly the unity of inner and outer in the India tradition
Empire of Enchantment
Author: John Zubrzycki
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190914394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"How Indian magic descended from the realm of the gods to become a popular amusement for the masses around the globe"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190914394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"How Indian magic descended from the realm of the gods to become a popular amusement for the masses around the globe"--Provided by publisher.
Profiles in Creativity
Author: Madhusoodhan Narasimhacharya Upadhyay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Biography of musicians, theater artists, and writers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Biography of musicians, theater artists, and writers.
Tagore
Author: Krishna Kripalani
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Bengali
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Bengali
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Rethinking a Millennium
Author: Rajat Datta
Publisher: Aakar Books
ISBN: 9788189833367
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This book is a collection of essays by eminent historians exploring a millennium of India s history between the eighth and the eighteenth century, conventionally understood as early medieval and medieval India. Though these terms are subjected to critical
Publisher: Aakar Books
ISBN: 9788189833367
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This book is a collection of essays by eminent historians exploring a millennium of India s history between the eighth and the eighteenth century, conventionally understood as early medieval and medieval India. Though these terms are subjected to critical
The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre
Author: James R. Brandon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521588225
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A comprehensive and authoritative single-volume reference work on the theatre arts of Asia-Oceania. Nine expert scholars provide entries on performance in twenty countries from Pakistan in the west, through India and Southeast Asia to China, Japan and Korea in the east. An introductory pan-Asian essay explores basic themes - they include ritual, dance, puppetry, training, performance and masks. The national entries concentrate on the historical development of theatre in each country, followed by entries on the major theatre forms, and articles on playwrights, actors and directors. The entries are accompanied by rare photographs and helpful reading lists.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521588225
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A comprehensive and authoritative single-volume reference work on the theatre arts of Asia-Oceania. Nine expert scholars provide entries on performance in twenty countries from Pakistan in the west, through India and Southeast Asia to China, Japan and Korea in the east. An introductory pan-Asian essay explores basic themes - they include ritual, dance, puppetry, training, performance and masks. The national entries concentrate on the historical development of theatre in each country, followed by entries on the major theatre forms, and articles on playwrights, actors and directors. The entries are accompanied by rare photographs and helpful reading lists.
A Girl Called Rumi
Author: Ari Honarvar
Publisher: Forest Avenue Press
ISBN: 1942436475
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
A Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar’s debut novel, weaves a captivating tale of survival, redemption, and the power of storytelling. Kimia, a successful spiritual advisor whose Iranian childhood continues to haunt her, collides with a mysterious giant bird in her mother’s California garage. She begins reliving her experience as a nine-year-old girl in war-torn Iran, including her friendship with a mystical storyteller who led her through the mythic Seven Valleys of Love. Grappling with her unresolved past, Kimia agrees to accompany her ailing mother back to Iran, only to arrive in the midst of the Green Uprising in the streets. Against the backdrop of the election protests, Kimia begins to unravel the secrets of the night that broke her mother and produced a dangerous enemy. As past and present collide, she must choose between running away again or completing her unfinished journey through the Valley of Death to save her brother.
Publisher: Forest Avenue Press
ISBN: 1942436475
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
A Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar’s debut novel, weaves a captivating tale of survival, redemption, and the power of storytelling. Kimia, a successful spiritual advisor whose Iranian childhood continues to haunt her, collides with a mysterious giant bird in her mother’s California garage. She begins reliving her experience as a nine-year-old girl in war-torn Iran, including her friendship with a mystical storyteller who led her through the mythic Seven Valleys of Love. Grappling with her unresolved past, Kimia agrees to accompany her ailing mother back to Iran, only to arrive in the midst of the Green Uprising in the streets. Against the backdrop of the election protests, Kimia begins to unravel the secrets of the night that broke her mother and produced a dangerous enemy. As past and present collide, she must choose between running away again or completing her unfinished journey through the Valley of Death to save her brother.
Transcending Boundaries
Author: Donald McKayle
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136745718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
First Published in 2002. Transcending Boundaries is an autobiography tracing the multifaceted and wideranging career of choreographer. director, performer and professor of dance Donald McKayle. His chance meeting with the legendary Bill Robinson, who obligingly responded to the entreaties of an adoring nine-year-old and executed an impromptu version of his infectious stair tap-dance, and an electric encounter as a teenager sitting in a darkened theatre witnessing a performance by concert artist Pearl Primus, are key early experiences which bring about McKayle's life in dance, theatre, film, television, entertainment and education. He learned at the feet of the masters, trained and developed some of the profession's top practitioners, and worked in theatres and studios around the world -on Broadway, in Hollywood -creating a repertoire of acclaimed masterworks. He experienced failure, success, love, marriage and family. Readers will find his autobiography a revelation in an ongoing and still evolving story.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136745718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
First Published in 2002. Transcending Boundaries is an autobiography tracing the multifaceted and wideranging career of choreographer. director, performer and professor of dance Donald McKayle. His chance meeting with the legendary Bill Robinson, who obligingly responded to the entreaties of an adoring nine-year-old and executed an impromptu version of his infectious stair tap-dance, and an electric encounter as a teenager sitting in a darkened theatre witnessing a performance by concert artist Pearl Primus, are key early experiences which bring about McKayle's life in dance, theatre, film, television, entertainment and education. He learned at the feet of the masters, trained and developed some of the profession's top practitioners, and worked in theatres and studios around the world -on Broadway, in Hollywood -creating a repertoire of acclaimed masterworks. He experienced failure, success, love, marriage and family. Readers will find his autobiography a revelation in an ongoing and still evolving story.