World of Indian performing arts

This book covers the most recent scenario -- the middle years of the 2010s – belonging to Indian dance and drama in an ample mesure, and music to a limited degree. It is unabashedly Delhi-centric (covering also Kolkata), yet surprisingly encompassing the national scene, since these metropolises draw the best talents of the land to showcase their performances. Delhi goes much farther: in constantly luring the itinerant performers from the overeas, and allowing glimpses into the latest happenings in the West and the East. Dance probably had it never so good in combining the sacred with the profane, the ephemeral with the experimental, and the intuition with the innovation. Our dancers combined solitary solos with mammoth manifestations of choreography, blended nritta and Nritya in a myriad ways and transcended from lokadharmi into natyadharmi – even into manodharmi – in an effortless manner, as was never done before.