A Sinhala-language study of Udarata Natum — the up-country, or Kandyan, dance tradition — by Saranapala Nuvarapaksha, issued by Godage Publishers of Colombo, a house with a long list of Sinhala titles on local arts, history and culture.
This book is written entirely in Sinhala. There is no English text and no parallel translation. Buyers outside Sri Lanka should be comfortable reading Sinhala prose before ordering, as the whole volume assumes it.
Udarata Natum is the dance form of the central hill country, performed with the drumming of the geta bera and associated with ritual and ceremonial occasions as well as the stage. Writing on it in Sinhala sits within a wider local tradition of scholarship and teaching material on the island's classical dance forms, much of which never appears in English at all.
It will suit dance students and teachers working in Sinhala, performers and drummers in the up-country tradition, and readers building a Sinhala-language shelf on Sri Lankan performing arts. Those researching the form from abroad may also want it for their collection, provided they read the language or have someone who can.
- Author: Saranapala Nuvarapaksha
- Publisher: Godage Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 164
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