Space, Time and Ways of Seeing: The Performance Culture of Kutiyattam

ISBN-13: 9780367724207 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 300 str.

Mundoli Narayanan

Opis

This volume explores the constitutive role played by space in the performance of Kutiyattam. It book explores the theatrical event as a phenomenon that comes into existence through a triangular relationship among the ‘ways of being’ of the performers, the ‘ways of seeing’ of the audience, and the space which brings them together. 

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Spatial Turn 2. Space and Ways of Doing/Seeing in Performance 3. Historical Contexts of Kutiyattam: Incorporation into Temples 4. Physical Space and the Culture of Elaboration  5. Performance Time: Digressions and Dissonance 6. The Training Space: The Body as Live Archive 7. The Socio-Cultural Space: Structures of Ideology and Knowledge Conclusion: Contemporary Spaces 

O autorze

Mundoli Narayanan, teaches at the Department English, University of Calicut, India. He has a PhD from the University of Exeter, UK, has also taught at the University of Sharjah, Miyazaki International College, Japan, and has been a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He writes in both English and Malayalam and his major areas of research and publication are Theatre & Performance Studies, traditional Indian performance and Cultural Studies. He has also done extensive documentation in association with UNESCO, CDiT, and VEDIKA.