Dance Education- The Gurukula construct
Dance Education is a series of articles that will focus on various aspects of the teaching-learning environment, methodology, practice and more. Bringing together varied perspectives from across regions, ideologies and styles, we hope to encourage an active dialogue about what one might consider to be one of the most significant links between the performing arts and the world at large - the teacher and the taught. The indigenous systems of knowledge transfer or education have gone through several phases of popularity, evolving with every passing generation and eventually paling in significance in many parts of the world thanks to colonial oppression. The world at large then continued to operate in colonial methods of education and work for several decades- even centuries. Today though, more and more people are realising that these are not optimal methods to learn and live by. In a world that is slowly trying to de-colonise itself (not just in India , but in several parts of Asia an...