Bernhard Schieber

Natyashastra

Knowledge

The Natyashastra treats performance as an integrated communicative event. Words, voice, bodies, staging, rhythm, and audience conventions jointly shape experience. Its contemporary diagnostic value lies in examining their coordination, while avoiding the extraction of gestures or aesthetic categories as universal leadership techniques.

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Model

In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.

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Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories

Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.

Executive Insight BriefNatyashastra: Audit the Whole Performance, Not the ScriptRead the brief →

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