11: Therapeutic Value of Indian Classical Dances with Radhika Phanse

How is Natyashashtra and dance therapy connected? In ancient India, Classical Dances were aimed at the betterment of health of dancers. How and why did it digress? What is making it come back as a therapy? One of your article reads, "turn your suffering into art, art into awareness and awareness into action". How can one think of dance when they are in pain? Is this possible for a person to get out of depression? What are the steps you take to bring the person in suffering to at least step on the dance floor? If dance form is so ecstatic and one loses a state of awareness, how can one concentrate and work on his or her sufferings? Where do you see Dance therapy going in the future. May be 50 years down the line?