Description
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAJ917 |
| Author: | Madhumita Raut |
| Publisher: | B.R. Publishing Corporation |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2007 |
| ISBN: | 9788188827107 |
| Pages: | 131 (Throughout Color Illustrations) |
| Cover: | Hardcover |
| Other Details | 11.0 inch x 8.5 inch |
| Weight | 850 gm |
Book Description
About the Book
Odissi did exist as a distinctive style of dance about 2,000 years ago when Natyashastra, one of the ancient Indian treatises on dance and dramaturgy, was written. Aesthetic sensuousness, flowing movements and rare lyrical grace within a classical framework have won for odissi dance an ever increasing clientele during last three decades.
Odissi-What, Why & How… traces the origin and development of Odissi dance with a special emphasis on the renaissance years of odissi, the period which saw the efflorescence of Odissi as it came to be recognised as a prominent classical dance of India.
The book also throws light on the technical aspects of Odissi, based on Natyashastra. Abhinaya Darpana and Abhinaya Chandrika. Detailed chapter have been devoted to Navarasas, Various Moods of Nayika, feet positions and more. A special section is dedicated to Aharya (adornments) and Vachika (Musical accompaniment of Odissi).
The book aims to be a source of joy for Odissi dancers and connoisseurs alike.
About the Author
Madhumita Raut is the torchbearer of her illustrious father Guru Mayadhar Rauts dance legacy. Guru Mayadhar Raut is the pioneering spirit who revived Odissi with Shastra-based knowledge A dynamic dancer, dedicated Guru and a scholar of repute, Madhumita Raut has taught and performed Odissi in more than 28 countries. She lives and works in New Delhi, where she runs Jayantika Associations Mayadhar Raut School of Odissi Dance. Perseverance, continuous efforts and an uncompromising commitment to her art makes her today an artist to reckon with.
Foreword
Whenever we talk of dance, our mind immediately flashes on the image of Lord Shiva in his dancing posture. Whatever information we have today, it is only from the sculptures and scriptures. From these we trace its origin and the history.
If we have any thing to prove about the form of dance centuries ago, it is the dancing sculptures in the temples which will give us a glimpses of the past, as well as prove its existence and various postures, From the Vedic times music and dance have been practised and were a part of various religious purposes, festive occasions and so no.
In music unlike dance, we have nothing to prove how it existed and in what form, excepting the Vedic hymns which is even practiced today. But in case of dance the various forms have a lively testimony in the form of temple sculptures, as to how they existed thousand years ago.
In her maiden venture Madhumita in her book “Odissi – What, Why & How … ” has tried to present the history and its gradual development of this classical dance form known as Odissi, in fifteen chapters. Madhumita Raut has earned a name in the field of Odissi as one of the leading exponents of this poetic form and learnt the art from her illustrious fat
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