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Kathābhinaya
By Janardan Ghosh
Storytelling is more than entertainment; it is an elixir, an Aushadhi, a medicine for the soul. As a scholar of Performance and Spirituality, Dr Janardan Ghosh has spent decades reviving the primal power of the text, voice and body. Discover how he weaves his research with practice and global performance-craft to transform narratives into transformative experiences.
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What is
Kathabhinaya?
Kathābhinaya is my evolving practice of embodied storytelling. It draws from Indian narrative traditions, abhinaya, gesture, song, philosophical reflection, humour, devotional memory, and contemporary theatre. In Kathābhinaya, the performer is not merely a narrator, S/he becomes a narrator, actor, commentator, witness, ritual agent, emotional conductor, and sometimes even the conduit or space through which the story breathes.
Kathābhinaya evolved through time and forms like Kathā Koli, Ākāśa , i-Logy, Kathāuṣadhi to Kathāvṛkṣa. Kathā Koli has explored the idea of story as seed: small, intimate, local, and capable of germinating into collective meaning. Akāśa has engaged with space, resonance, silence, breath, and metaphysical presence. i-Logy has investigated the modern fragmented self, the digital “I,” and the performative crisis of iderntity. Kathāvṛkṣa looks at stories as medicine. At present we've entered the world of forests and trees and are learning from the arborial wisdom.
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