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  2. Nataraja - Wikipedia

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    Nataraja is a significant visual interpretation of Brahman and a dance posture of Shiva. The details in the Nataraja artwork have attracted commentaries and secondary literature such as poems detailing its theological significance. [19] [24] It is one of the widely studied and supreme illustrations of Hindu art from the medieval era. [45] [46]

  3. Tandava - Wikipedia

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    The 108 karanas of Tandava have inspired Shiva sculptures of the 1st-millennium BCE, particularly the Tandava style which fuses many of these into a composite image found at the Nataraja temple of Chidambaram. [26] [27] Shiva as Nataraja or Krishna dancing the Tandava is a recurring theme in the Chola period bronzes. Various Shiva temples in ...

  4. Natya Shastra - Wikipedia

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    The theory of music, techniques for singing, and music instruments are discussed over chapters 28 to 34. [ 43 ] [ 41 ] The text in its final chapters describes the various types of dramatic characters, their roles and need for team work, what constitutes an ideal troupe, closing out the text with its comments of the importance of performance ...

  5. List of music theorists - Wikipedia

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    The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2007) Max (software), Pure Data: Philip Ewell: born 1966 Music Theory and the White Racial Frame (2020) Race in music, Russian and twentieth century music, as well as rap and hip hop [218] Ellie Hisama: Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon (2007)

  6. A General Theory of Love - Wikipedia

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    The book examines the phenomenon of love and human connection from a combined scientific and cultural perspective. It attempts to reconcile the language and insights of humanistic inquiry and cultural wisdom (literature, song, poetry, painting, sculpture, dance and philosophy) with the more recent findings of social science, neuroscience and evolutionary biology.

  7. Shiva - Wikipedia

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    The depiction of Shiva as Nataraja (Sanskrit नटराज; Naṭarāja) is a form (mūrti) of Shiva as "Lord of Dance". [278] [279] The names Nartaka ("dancer") and Nityanarta ("eternal dancer") appear in the Shiva Sahasranama. [280] His association with dance and also with music is prominent in the Puranic period. [281]

  8. Karana (dance) - Wikipedia

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    Sculptures of the Karanas performed by the god of dance - Nataraja - at Kadavul Hindu Temple, on Kauai, Hawaii. Karanas are the 108 key transitions [1] in the classical Indian dance described in 4th Chapter named "Tandava Lakshana" of Natya Shastra. Karana is a Sanskrit verbal noun, meaning "doing".

  9. Nitya Chaitanya Yati - Wikipedia

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    Nitya Chaitanya Yati was born K. R. Jayachandra Panicker on 2 November 1924 [1] at Vakayar, a village in the erstwhile Travancore, now in Pathanamthitta district of the south Indian state of Kerala to Pandalam Raghava Panicker, a poet, teacher , and his wife, Vamakshi Amma [2] and nephew of Muloor S. Padmanabha Panicker.