{"id":1896,"date":"2014-07-31T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T08:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/?post_type=product&p=1896"},"modified":"2015-11-09T13:12:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T13:12:59","slug":"bharatas-karanas-an-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/product\/bharatas-karanas-an-interpretation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharata’s Karanas (An Interpretation)"},"content":{"rendered":"
The power of the image, whether static as in a painting, or animated as in dance, invokes often unusual or unasked questions as to its visual semiotics and philosophical underpinnings. Images speak a distinct,often subliminal, language, be it in performance or not. It is this language that underlies the images in this book,\u00a0Bharata\u2019s Karanas,\u00a0a compendium of original 108 drawings of phrases of movement found in the Natya Shastra, an ancient Indian treatise on\u00a0theatre. As in all thought processes,\u00a0we subconsciously arrange our ideas in sequences, linear or otherwise, and act on the choices that are an outcome of this process. The creative morphing of this link from “thought to action”,\u00a0and between “being and becoming”, is the essence of this compendium. Augmenting theoretical oservations through direct experience, bybeing the dancer in the dance and, at the same time, being the artist \u00a0of the artwork, constitutes a journey beyond a phenomenal aspect of tacit knowing; this will be a\u00a0significant and lived knowing. Following this thread, these drawings explore\u00a0the aesthetic “moment” through\u00a0experience; the moving notation of\u00a0dance sculptures is studied and created as illustrations of “ink on paper” from the point of view\u00a0of “intentionality”.\u00a0It also examines kinaesthetic impact on the neuro-physiology of the dancer as a corporeal entity and provides a rare insight in the area of consciousness studies.<\/div>\n
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\u201c..her artworks so powerful and fragile at the same time. Afterall, that is what most artists can only dream to achieve, to unlock the intimate within the universal.”<\/em><\/div>\n
Akram Khan. Dancer, United Kingdom<\/strong><\/div>\n
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“Sarasa Krishnan’s research adds a profound and enduring component to her existing legacy as a great artist.”<\/em><\/div>\n
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\u00a0Duncan Ord, OAM, Director General of Arts and Culture Western Australia<\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n