"ASPECTS
OF ABHINAYA"
Kalanidhi
Narayanan
The
Alliance Company
244,
Ramakrishna Mutt Road
P
O Box #617, Mylapore
Chennai
600004
Ph: (044) - 24641314
A
personalised, no nonsence approach to Abhinaya, not bogged down by the
Shastras.
"BHAAVA
NIROOPANNA"
Kanak
Rele
Nalanda
Dance Research Center
Plot
A-7/1, N S Road # 10
J
V P D Scheme, Vile Parle (W)
Mumbai
400049
Ph: (022) - 26206326
Fax: (022) - 26245008
e-mail: nalanda1966@gmail.com
Part
science, part self experience, lucidly put together by committed
academician,
dancer, choreographer Kanak Rele.
"DANCE
DIALECTS OF INDIA"
Ragini
Devi
Vikas
Publications
E-28, Sector-8, Noida 201 301
Ph: +91-120 - 4078 900
email: helpline@vikaspublishing.com
The
best window available on the classical dance systems of India as they existed
half a century ago.
"NATYA
BRAHMAN: THE THEATRIC UNIVERSE"
Anita
Ratnam
SAHER
C/o
Karnatic Music Book Center
14,
Sripuram 1st Street
Royapettah,
Chennai 600014
Ph: (044) – 28111716, 28113253
e-mail: kmbc@vsnl.net
A
comparative study between Bharata's 'Natya Sastra' and Aristotle's 'Poetics'
which reveals the inter connectedness between theatre traditions of the
West and the East.
"PURANIC
ENCYCLOPAEDIA"
Vettam
Mani
Mothilal
Banarsidass
A - 44, Naraina Industrial Area,
Phase - I, New Delhi 110028
Ph: (011) - 25795180, 25792734, 25793423
e-mail: mlbd@mlbd.com
A
comprehensive and reliable guide towards understanding characters big and
small from our puranas.
"THE
DANCE IN INDIA"
Enakshi
Bhavnani
Foreword by: Kamaladevi
Publisher: D B Taraporevala Sons & Co. Pvt Ltd, Mumbai
Published: 1965; Reprinted in 1984. Now out of print.
Hardbound coffee-table book on the classical dance system half a century
ago which offers a slightly different perspective. Individual Prefaces
on their respective dance forms by: E. Krishna Iyer, Sitara Devi,
Gopinath, Kabichandra Kalicharan Patnaik, Natyacharya Sri Banda Kanaka
Lingeswara Rao, Bharatacharya Sri Chinta Krishnamurthi Bhagavatulu,
Nayana Jhaveri, and Verrier Elvin.
"THE
RAMAYANA"
Lakshmi
Lal
Orient
Longman Ltd
Kamani
Marg, Ballard Estate
Mumbai
400001
Ph: (022) - 22616918 / 22616919
Impeccable
english, an overview of the many Ramayanas prevalent in India.
"UNDERSTANDING
BHARATA NATYAM"
Mrinalini
Sarabhai
The
Darpana Academy of Performing Arts
Usmanpura,
Ahmedabad 380013
Ph: (079) - 27551389
e-mail: admn@darpana.com
An
indispensable guide to every dancer, teacher, onlooker of Bharatanatyam.
"VALLABHACARYA
ON THE LOVE GAMES OF KRSNA"
James
D Redington
Motilal
Banarsidass
A - 44, Naraina Industrial Area,
Phase - I, New Delhi 110028
Ph: (011) - 25795180, 25792734, 25793423
e-mail: mlbd@mlbd.com
A
book that makes the Krishna Philosophy accessible to the dancer without
mouthing pious platitudes about jeevatma paramatma.
"WHEN
GOD IS A CUSTOMER"
A
K Ramanujam, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman
Oxford
University Press
Y
M C A Library Building
Jai
SIngh Road, New Delhi 110001
Ph: (011) - 23273841-2, 23253647
email: delhi.in@oup.com
An
introduction through translation to the wonderful world of dance and shringara
through the lyrics of Annamayya, Kshetrayya,
Sarangapani
and Kandukuri Rudrakavi.
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None
of these books are perfect and flawless. All of them are helpful.
Use with caution
- Ranga Rao VAK
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