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THE PERFORMING ARTS

INTRODUCTION

Theater and dance are two of the world`s major performing arts. And both have a deeper, more therapeutic and psychological import than was first highlighted in the ancient texts of Bharat Muni`s Natya Shastra and Aristotle`s Poetics.

 

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