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Rethinking dance studies through the Nāṭyaśāstra: A hermeneutic analysis

Submitted by rajeshkotappa on Wed, 09/02/2026 - 15:28

Contemporary dance scholarship has increasingly turned toward decolonial perspectives, yet much of this work continues to operate within conceptual frameworks that separate theory from practice and aesthetics from embodied experience. This paper addresses this limitation by revisiting the Nāṭyaśāstra as an Indic framework for understanding methods in dance education.