The Natya Shastra sets out the structure of drama, stagecraft, acting and gesture, music and rhythm, and rasa theory — the account of aesthetic experience still taught in performance studies.
Natya Shastra
Date disputed; the text is layered · disputed · disputed
Composition is placed across a wide range and the text shows accretion
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Art, music, dance and drama · CBSE · ICSE · IGCSE · IB · State — Natya, Sangita, Shilpa and Chitra. Theatre and its structure, rasa theory, scales, rhythm and notation, dance grammar, painting and iconography, stagecraft.
Performing arts — Natya and Sangita. Dramaturgy, aesthetics, music theory, dance grammar and stage practice.
Evidence: traditionally attributed · no modern scholarly reference recorded yet.