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The Performing Arts of Kerala Hunter College Education Abroad; Winter 2010 THEA 397.73/THC 725.85 - 3 CREDITS Professor Claudia Orenstein, Associate Professor, Hunter College Theatre Department and the CUNY Graduate Center December 26th Depart New York late evening December 28th Arrive in Cochin, India early AM December 29th- January 2rd- Initial Tour in Cochin area. 28 -12-09 } 29 -12-09 } 3 Nights in Fort Cochin 30 -12-09 } 31 -12-09 } 1 Night in Munnar 01 -01-10 } 1 Night in Thekkady Visit Cochin Jewish quarter, and Dutch areas. Backwaters boat trip. Visit to Munnar wildlife and forest reservation. Visit to Thekkady tea plantations. Visit Elephant sanctuaries. Commercial kathakali performances. January 3- January22- Daily classes in kathakali at Kerala Kalamandalam Performing Arts Academy in Chetuthuruthi, India. Daily Weekday Schedule M-F 9-12AM Kathakali training. physical body work 12-1 lunch M,W,F 1-2 Lectures on Indian Performance by Professor Orenstein, Program Assistant Boris Daussà-Pastor or Instructors from the Kerala Kalamandalam. 2-4 Kathakali training. eye exercises, mudras Evening Performances at Kalamandalam or in neighboring areas of kathakali, kuttiyattam, mohiniyattam, bharata natyam, theyyam. January 22- Sharing of final performance work Schedule will also include visits to traditional puppeteers and other local performers and scholars. Weekend Schedules: January 9-11- Optional overnight train trip to Chennai- Sightseeing and meeting with theatre professionals in Chennai January 16-17- International Theatre Conference in Thrissur Graduate Students are required to present at this conference. Undergraduates attend. January 23-25- Optional overnight trip to Trivandrum Janaury 26 – Return flight to New York- late January 27th- Arrive back in New York early AM Undergraduate student Requirements Graduate student Requirements BOOKS: Zarrilli, Phillip Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Comes to Play (London: Routledge, 1999) ARTICLES IN COURSE PACKET: Allen, Matthew Harp. “Rewriting the Script for South Indian Dance,” TDR (1988-) 41, no.3 (Autumn, 1997): 63-100. Ashley, Wayne. “The Teyyam Kettu of Northern Kerala,” The Drama Review: TDR 23, no.2, Performance Theory: Southeast Asia Issue (Jun., 1979): 99-112. “A Collision of Cultures: Some Western Interpretations of the Indian Theatre,” Asian Theatre Journal 1, no.1 (Spring, 1984): 1-20. Brandon, James R. “A New World: Asian Theatre in the West Today,” TDR (1988-) 33, no.2 (Summer, 1989): 25-50. Daugherty, Diane. “Fifty Years On: Arts Funding in Kerala Today.” Asian Theatre Journal 17, no.2 (Autumn, 2000): 237-252. Daugherty, Diane, and Marlene Pitkow. “Who Wears the Skirts in Kathakali?,” TDR (1988-) 35, no.2 (Summer, 1991): 138-156. Erdman, Joan L. “Inside Tradition: Scholar-Performers and Asian Arts,” Asian Theatre Journal, 8, no.2 (Autumn, 1991): 111-117. Free, Katharine B. “Greek Drama and the Kuttiyattam,” Theatre Journal 33, no.1 (Mar., 1981): 80-89. Ley, Graham. “Aristotle’s Poetics, Bharatamuni’s Natyasastra, and Zeami’s Treatises: Theory as Discourse,” Asian Theatre Journal 17, no.2 (Autumn, 2000): 191-214. Lukose, Ritty. “Consuming Globalization: Youth and Gender in Kerala, India.” Journal of social History (Summer 2005): 915-935. Mlecko, Joel D. “The Guru in Hindu Tradition,” Numen 29, Fasc.1 (Jul 1982): 33-61. O’Shea, Janet. “ “Traditional” Indian Dance and the Making of Interpretive Communities,” Asian Theatre Journal 15, no.1 (Spring, 1998): 45-63. Ohtani, Kimiko. “Bharata Natyam: Rebirth of Dance in India,” Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarium Hungaricae 33, fasc. 1/4 (1991): 301-08. Panikkar, K. M. A History of Kerala: 1498 -1801. Annamalainagar (India): The Annamalai University, 1960. Richmond, Farely P., Darius L. Swan and Phillip B. Zarrillie, ed. Indian Theatres: Traditions of Performance. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. Schechner, Richard. “A Reply to Rustom Bharucha,” Asian Theatre Journal 1, no.2 (Autumn, 1984): 245-253. Zarrilli, Phillip B. “Kalarippayatt, Martial Art of Kerala,” The Drama Review: TDR 23, no.2 (Jun., 1979): 113-124. Web Information Included: “Summary of the Mahabharata” http://www.dharmakshetra.com/literature/summary%20of%20mahabharata.html “Ramayana Summary” http://www.mythome.org/RamaSummary.html “Shadow Puppets” http://puppetindia.com/shadow.htm OTHER RECOMMENDED READING, NOT INCLUDED IN PACKET Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Public Worlds, v.1). USA: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. Balakrishnan, Sadanam P.V. Kathakali: A Practitioner’s Perspective. Kozhikode, Trissur, Kottayam, Thiruvananthapuram (India): Poorna Publications, 2005. Bharucha,, Rustom. “A Reply to Richard Schechner,” Asian Theatre Journal 1, no.2 (Autumn, 1984): 254-260. Bharucha, Rustom. Theatre and the World: Essays on Perfromance and Politics of Culture. Columbia, MO: South Aisa Books, 1990. Bolland, David. A Guide to Kathakali: With the Stories of 35 Plays. New Delhi, India: Sterling Paperbacks, 1996. Jones, Betty True. “Kathakali Dance-Drama: An Historical Perspective.” In Performing Arts in India. Edited by Bonnie C. Wade. New York: University Press of America, 1983. Menon, A. Sreedhara. A Social Cultural History of India, Kerala. Mulholland, Moyra K. “The Indian Theatre, Its Origins and Its Later Developments Under European Influence,” review of The Indian Theatre, Its Origins and Its Later Developments Under European Influence, by Ramanlal Kanaiyalal Yajnik, Pacific Affairs Book Reviews 44, no.4, Winter 1971-1972, 631-632. Pilaar, Agatha Jane. Kathakali plays in English: Vol. I. Kôttayam, Kerala: D.C. Offset printers, 1993. Kathakali plays in English: Vol. II. Kôttayam, Kerala: D.C. Offset printers, 1997. Kathakali plays in English: Vol. III. Kôttayam, Kerala: D.C. Offset printers, 2000. Kathakali plays in English: Vol. IV. Kôttayam, Kerala: D.C. Offset printers, 2003. Suresh, Vidya Bhavani. Demistifying Fine Arts – Volume 11: What is Bharatanatyam?. Chennai, India: Skanda Publication, October 2002. Demistifying Fine Arts – Volume 15: What is Mohiniyattam?. Chennai, India: Skanda Publication, August 2003. Demistifying Fine Arts – Volume 16: What is Kuchupudi?. Chennai, India: Skanda Publication, September 2003. Woodcock, George. Kerala: A Portrait of the Malabar Coast. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. Zarrilli, Phillip B. The Kathakali Complex: Actor, Performance & Structure. New Delhi (India): Abhinav Publications, 1984.
Located on the Southwest Coast of India, Kerala is a beautiful region of pristine beaches and lush rainforests. It is also the birthplace of some of India's most exquisite, ancient, and complex performance traditions. Students on this study abroad program will have the opportunity to learn about these various performance forms and train daily in kathakali -- a three-hundred year-old dance-drama tradition -- with master teachers from the Kerala Kalamandalam, the leading performing arts academy in Kerala. Readings and lectures on the region's history and arts, evening performances, and excursions and short tours to Kerala's geographical and historic sites will help contextualize and reveal this area's rich performing arts heritage. Graduate students will participate in an international theatre conference. Students should be in good physical and mental health to participate and open-minded about cultural differences they will encounter. Students will live communally in a house or apartments and each will contribute by taking on house responsibilities. Some performance and/or physical training background desirable.
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