Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Genre & Style

Pantomime

Pantomime remains a part of the career for professional actors, who must act out a lot of their scenes where there is no speech.  A lot of the bodily movements in these scenes involve fornication and adultery just as they did before the time of Christ. 
There are comedy theaters in nearly every major city throughout the world.  The Chinese may have mastered pantomime as they seem to use it more so now then the ancient nations from which it came down to the western world.






Nautanki



Nautanki has its origins in the folklore of North India about a princess with incomparable beauty who was so delicate to weigh only as much as a flower. This folklore took the shape of a drama then known as sangeets (musicals) by the name, Nautanki Shehzadi ("The Story of Princess Nautanki"), soon it became so popular that the name became that of the genre itself.

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