The Voice of the Sculptures

Voice of the Sculptures. How the ‘Language of Dance’ Can Be Used to Interpret Temple Sculptures. An Example from the Hoysaḷeśvara Temple at Haḷebīd The sculptures of the Hoysaḷeśvara temple at Haḷebīd abound in dance scenes and dance postures, thus representing a great source of material for...

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Autor principal:	Anna Tosato
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2018
Materias:	Hoysaḷa sculptures Hoysaḷeśvara temple dance sculptures nāṭya-śāstras vismaya hasta Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:603e8891e6284ac6bd3ba98f9466970d2021-11-27T12:54:28ZThe Voice of the Sculptures10.12797/CIS.19.2017.02.041732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/603e8891e6284ac6bd3ba98f9466970d2018-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/93https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 Voice of the Sculptures. How the ‘Language of Dance’ Can Be Used to Interpret Temple Sculptures. An Example from the Hoysaḷeśvara Temple at Haḷebīd The sculptures of the Hoysaḷeśvara temple at Haḷebīd abound in dance scenes and dance postures, thus representing a great source of material for the study of the relationship between dance and sculpture in traditional Indian art. In this work, a posture of the arms frequently found in the dance sculptures of the Hoysaḷeśvara temple is analyzed according to the nāṭya-śāstras and to its location in the temple building. So doing, I aim to investigate how the technical language of dance could have been used by the sculptors to inform temple sculptures with a variety of meanings, in a way analogous to the use of dance sequences to express specific feelings on stage. While doing so, the work highlights how traditional dance, with its full-fledged body language, possibly plays a specific role in the act of going to the temple: dance is the language through which the sculptures are enlivened and speak, so to say, to the devotees while they perform the ritual of circumambulating the temple (pradakṣiṇa) and entering into it. Anna TosatoKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleHoysaḷa sculpturesHoysaḷeśvara templedance sculpturesnāṭya-śāstrasvismaya hastaIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 19, Iss 2 (2018)
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description	Voice of the Sculptures. How the ‘Language of Dance’ Can Be Used to Interpret Temple Sculptures. An Example from the Hoysaḷeśvara Temple at Haḷebīd The sculptures of the Hoysaḷeśvara temple at Haḷebīd abound in dance scenes and dance postures, thus representing a great source of material for the study of the relationship between dance and sculpture in traditional Indian art. In this work, a posture of the arms frequently found in the dance sculptures of the Hoysaḷeśvara temple is analyzed according to the nāṭya-śāstras and to its location in the temple building. So doing, I aim to investigate how the technical language of dance could have been used by the sculptors to inform temple sculptures with a variety of meanings, in a way analogous to the use of dance sequences to express specific feelings on stage. While doing so, the work highlights how traditional dance, with its full-fledged body language, possibly plays a specific role in the act of going to the temple: dance is the language through which the sculptures are enlivened and speak, so to say, to the devotees while they perform the ritual of circumambulating the temple (pradakṣiṇa) and entering into it.
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