Mythili Sushil Maratt

Associate Professor, Fine and performing arts, GSHS, HYD

mmaratt@gitam.edu | | | |

Mythili, an ICCR-empanelled Mohiniyattam artist holds a PhD from IIT Bombay in the Semiotics of Mohiniyattam. She amalgamates multiple styles and created new works presented at festivals such as Indrashanush Dilli and IIC, Erasing Borders Festival of India and for India Foundation for the Arts. She has published with Routledge, Lexington books and was an advisory board member of DSA. She teaches short-term Liberal Arts Courses for the NID's (Ahmedabad, Kurukshetra).

Research Publications
  • Sustaining Saadhana: Shifting Signification of Indian Dance (2020) in Critical Global Semiotics Understanding Sustainable Transformational Citizenship, 2020, Routledge (ISBN: 978 -0-367-07698-6) DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022159
  • “The Scripted and the Spontaneous in Classical Dance Performance” (2019) in Critical Essays on English Language, Literature and Aesthetics A Volume in Honour of Milind Malshe. 2019 Cambridge Scholars (ISBN-13:978-1-5275-2025-7, ISBN-10:1-5275-2025-0).
  • Introduction and Chapter: Dancing Narratives: performing Mythology in Globalized Spaces, Book Chapter in Mythili Anoop and Varun Gulati eds. Scripting Dance in Contemporary India , 2016 Lexington Books (ISBN: 9781498505536).
  • “Natya, Rasa and Abhinaya as Semiotics Principles in Classical Indian Dance” Mythili Anoop, Semiotica Impact Factor: 0.8 2012, May Mouton de Gruyter, 190, p.111 – 131, ISSN: 1613-3692 DOI:10.1515/sem-2012-0042
  • “Creativity and the Code: Training in Mohiniattam” Mythili Anoop & Milind S Malshe Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Impact Factor: 0.4 2011, Sept. Routledge, 2.2, p. 138 – 150, ISSN: 1944-3927 https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2011.602982
Authored Books
  • Mohiniyattam, An Indian Dance Tradition A Language of Feminine Desire , 2018, Shubhi.
  • Mohiniyattam: A Reader (2 edited volumes), under publication by Motilal Banarsidass
  • Scripting Dance in Contemporary India (edited volume) , 2016 Lexington Books
Expertise
  • Indian Dance Studies, Performance, Choreography and dance composition, Dance Research and writing
Mythili Sushil Maratt