Performing Arts and Therapeutic Implications

Analysing the ethnographic, social, historical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual facets of performing arts, this book highlights the deep therapeutic impact these have on the psyche of the practitioners and audience, using case studies from dance, music and drama, as also interviews and life narratives of artists.

Tanvi Bajaj is a Bharatnatyam dancer and is currently studying to become a Certified Movement Analyst in New York, US. Swasti Shrimali Vohra is Associate Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Delhi, India.

List of Plates. Glossary. Foreword Guru Syed Sallauddin Pasha. Preface. Acknowledgements 1. Nrtta. Natya. Nrtya 2. The Spiritual and the Performer 3. Rhythm Divine 4. On the Other Side 5. The 'Play' of Life 6. The Guru-Shishya 7. Bharatanatyam: The Ultimate Remedy 8. Intangible Ananda: Music, Dance and Drama. Annexure. Bibliography. About the Authors. Index