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Ramayana
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puppet-style modern dance-drama based on the Ramayana
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Ramayana

dance-drama by Shanti Bardhan
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  • South Asian arts
    / Modern Indian dance

    …(Mumbai), in 1952 he produced Ramayana, in which the actors moved and danced like puppets. His posthumous production Panchatantra (The Winning of Friends) is based on an ancient fable of four friends (Mouse, Turtle, Deer, and Crow), in which he used masks and the mimed movements of animals and birds.

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    …(Mumbai), in 1952 he produced Ramayana, in which the actors moved and danced like puppets. His posthumous production Panchatantra (The Winning of Friends) is based on an ancient fable of four friends (Mouse, Turtle, Deer, and Crow), in which he used masks and the mimed movements of animals and birds.

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