5 Days Program on Natyasastra by Dr.Bharat Gupt

This is to let you know about a 5 day lecture on Natyasastra, by Dr.Bharat Gupt, well known personality in the area of theatre and culture. The program is arranged by Madras University and is open to outsiders also, including teachers and serious learners ofdance.
Dates: 9th to 13th march, 2009
5 days with 2 sessions each day
Intention: to cover the whole natya sastra
A fee of Rs.1,000/ is charged. Registration may be made thru phone/person with Dept of Music Fee to be paid by 15th Feb Bharat Gupt: Theatre Theorist and Cultural Analyst Associate Professor of English , College of Vocational Studies, University of Delhi. Born in 1946 in Moradabad, a small town in the Uttar Pradesh province of India of mixed Hindu-Muslim population, best known for its engraved art on brassware and a little less for hindustani music and urdu poetry. Parents moved inearly fifties to Delhi, the new capital of modernity and political intrigue, where he went to school and college and studied English, Hindi, Sanskrit and philosophy, but spent every summer in the district town. Spent a year in the US at the end of Counter-Cultural days and took a Master's degree from Toronto. He learnt to play the sitar and surbahar under the eminent musician Uma Shankar Mishra and studied musicology , yoga sutras andclassics under Acarya Brihaspati and Swami Kripalvananda. Trained both in modern European and traditional Indian educational systems, he has worked in classical studies, theatre, music, culture and media studies and researched as Senior Onassis Fellow in Greece on revival of ancient Greek theatre. As a classicist he came to realise that ancient Greek drama and culture as a whole, was given an unduly empirical color by the modern West. He felt that Greek theatre was closer to ancient Indian theatre as an ethical and religiousact or hieropraxis and instead of being seen as Western and Eastern, Greek and Indian theatres should be seen rooted in the Indo-European cultural beliefs, myths and idolatory and the aesthetics of emotional arousal. He has lectured on theatre and music at various Universities in India, North America and Greece and is a visiting faculty at the National School of Drama, Delhi and the Bhartendu Academy for Dramatic Arts , Lucknow. His published books are : Dramatic Concepts Greek and Indian (1994) and Natyashastra , Chapter 28: Ancient Scales of Indian Music (1996). He writes for research journals and national newspapers also on cultural and educational issues.