Rasa: performing the divine in India

Transliteration and romanization

1. A taste of things to come

2. Rasa in theory: text and context

Etymological ingredients

Sources of inspiration

A written recipe for the arts

Influences and implications

3. Rasa in practice: drama, dance, music

All the stage is but a world

Dance as mystery

Bharata Natyam

Shringara Rasa: what love has to do with it

Kathak

Kathakali

Good taste in music

Dissonance, assonance, variation, transcendence

4. Transformations in time and space.