Natya Shastra must be the most used and abused word today.
Wherever I go, Pune or Paris, Baroda or Bolivia, this is one random word
thrown by those who wish to impress their bookish, inapplicable
knowledge of Indian dance. It is another matter when I ask some obese
dancer or guru what NS has to say about age and weight of a dancer fit
for stage or what dimensions stage ought to be, then they look blank or
have excuses that it was WRITTEN eons ago and not applicable in its
entirety today! Some silly teachers have drilled NS so much into ears
and brains of poor unsuspecting students that most students are lost
today and are feeling dance art is too heavy and redundant. Imagine,
even modern dancers are suffering from this overdose of NS. One beauty
from Bombay asked me, “Sir, how to use NS in modern dance by Bombay
beach?" (as though its content and concepts of purvarangam or rasa
theory would be used differently in mountains of Almora or sands of
Jodhpur!).
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