Book Review - Dance games for digital age denizens - Ranee Kumar

Though not the first of its kind, this play activity book on Indian classical dance has a cutting edge with its mind games and pithy puzzles. Aptly titled 'Natya Kreeda' and authored by California-based Aria University professor Dr. Velury Sumitra (Dept of Kuchipudi), the glossy 46-page book is a mini handbook on dance, not just for kids but for dance aspirants across all ages.

It's a brilliantly conceived workbook with a definite design and direction. Replete with artistic pictures the table of contents, divides itself into seven chapters beginning with: 1) The dance Maze puzzle; 2) Word-finder; 3) Yati and builder games; 4) Jumbled word games; 5) Advanced puzzle sections; 6) Complex word-building and 7) Answers to the puzzles. The author has provided ample instructions to the practitioner/readers of this workbook in the form of one-page notes - on her own objective in crafting this book, another note to the dance teachers, a guiding page to the dance maze puzzles apart from aesthetic titles in Sanskrit with English tag line.

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