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To play Kutiyattam with the master.

Vipin is 15 years old. He is a student at the Kalamandalam School, where performing arts are taught. He has been studying Kutyattam for three years, the only traditional Sanskrit theatre in India. Each day, students are subjected to rigorous discipline and intensive trainings. Thanks to the help of...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Catteau, Manuel (Producer), Queyrat, Jean (Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:This edition in English.
Published: Paris, France : ZED, 2006.
Series:Ethnographic video online ; volume 2
Living cultures
Subjects:
Theater > India.
Theater > Study and teaching > India.
Sanskrit drama.
Théâtre > Inde.
Théâtre > Étude et enseignement > Inde.
Théâtre sanscrit.
Theater.
Theater > Study and teaching.
India.
Online media.
Nonfiction films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Vipin is 15 years old. He is a student at the Kalamandalam School, where performing arts are taught. He has been studying Kutyattam for three years, the only traditional Sanskrit theatre in India. Each day, students are subjected to rigorous discipline and intensive trainings. Thanks to the help of their teacher, Sangi, they will learn more than 400 codified gestures and will develop a new body: the actor's body, the Kutiyattam body.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013).
Physical Description:1 online resource (53 min.).
Playing Time:00:52:35