A study in Sinhala of women's place in Sri Lankan dance, written by Dhammika Lankathilake, an academic at the University of Aesthetic Studies. The whole book is in Sinhala; there is no English text in it, so it will suit readers who are comfortable in the language, or a collection where Sinhala-language scholarship on the performing arts belongs.
The subject is the connection between women and dance, and in particular the lasya quality — the graceful, lyrical aspect of dance — which the author treats as something women's dancing is especially able to bring forward. Against that, she sets a plain observation about the field: analytical writing on women's contribution to Sri Lankan dance, grounded in established fact, has been scarce. The book is offered as an attempt to fill that gap.
Its intended readers are those working on Sri Lankan dance as a form — students, teachers and researchers — and the material is gathered with that use in mind. Readers with a general interest in Sri Lankan performing arts and in the women who have shaped them will also find it readable, provided they read Sinhala.
Published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, a long-established Sri Lankan publishing and bookselling house issuing titles in Sinhala and English.
- Author: Dhammika Lankathilake
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552130427
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