Thoughts on the beginning: While I am excited about the final product and mindset that I will achieve through ICAP, I realize that I have a long way to go. This type of performance is a meeting point of every aspect of one's being - from the physical to the mental to the emotional. I am slightly intimidated by the raw emotion that can be portrayed through what I have seen of this dance but I have no doubt that I have enough emotion to hold me over!
We will be reading the Ramayana throughout the semester with the goal of performing scenes from this Indian and Hindu epic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana
While I am reading - and enjoying- a novel version by Ramesh Menon I am struggling a little bit with names and words that are confusing and hard to understand. I should start understanding more and more soon enough though. I would be interested to learn more about the original poetic versions of the Ramayana as written by Valmiki and perhaps other authors.
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