1st Edition
The Teaching of Kathakali in Australia Mirroring the Master
Content
Chapter 1
Mirroring not Mimicking the Master
Chapter 2
The guru shishya or master disciple relationship
Chapter 3
From Mythology to reality: Western perceptions of the exotic Kathakali body
Chapter 4
Teaching Multiple Bodies in Australia
Chapter 5
Working One-on-One with Helen Smith and Peter Fraser
Chapter 6
Caste, Kathakali and its "gestures of embodied aggression"
Chapter 7
Performing Kathakali in Australia
Chapter 8
Kathakali for the global performer and researcher
Index
Biography
Arjun Raina was trained as an actor at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and as a Kathakali dancer at the International Centre for Kathakali, New Delhi, India. He has been performing and teaching drama and theatre for over 30 years. Arjun holds a PhD in Theater and Performance from Flinders University, Australia and has taught at the National School of Drama, New Delhi and at the Ambedkar and Ashoka Universities, in India.
