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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462347303321

Titolo

Dance matters : performing India / / editors, Pallabi Chakravorty, Nilanjana Gupta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-280-66487-8

9786613641809

0-203-15045-7

1-136-51613-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChakravortyPallabi

GuptaNilanjana

Disciplina

792.80954

Soggetti

Dance - Social aspects - India

Dance - India

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; I Can the Subaltern Dance?; 1 Dancing Off-stage: Nationalism and its "Minor Practices" in Tamil Nadu; 2 Another Time, Another Space - Does the Dance Remain the Same?; 3 Folk Culture in Front of Serious Challenge: A Case Study on the Tribes of North Bengal; 4 The Problematics of Tradition and Talent in Indian Classical Dance; 5 Dance as Healing: Kolkata Sanved; II Globalization of Indian Dance; 6 The Ownership of Indian Classical Dancing and Its Performance on the Global Stage

7 Negotiating Identity: Dance and Religion in British Hindu Communities8 Local/Global Histories of Bharatnatyam; III Aesthetics Embodied and Embedded; 9 It Matters For Whom You Dance: Audience Participation in Rasa Theory; 10 Manipuri Dance: A Lyrical Manifestation of Devotion; 11 Swayed by Love: Dance in the Vaishnava Temple Imagery of Bengal; 12 Remixed Practice: Bollywood Dance and the Global Indian; IV The Gendered Dancing Body; 13 The Daring Within: Speaking Gender through Navanritya



14 Re-Exporting "Tradition": The Transcultural Practice of Kathak in Kolkata and the Creation of a New Female Body15 The Lords of Dance: Changing Fortunes; V Alternative Histories; 16 The Politics of Memory: The Rise of the Anti-Hero in Kathakali; 17 Guru Surendranath Jena: Subverting the Reconstituted Odissi Canon; 18 Courtesans and Choreographers: The (Re)Placement of Women in the History of Kathak Dance; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice as they have evolved in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic shifts have shaped Indian dance and its negotiation with modernity.. Written by eminent and emergent scholars and practitioners of Indian dance, the articles make dance a foundational socio-cultural and aesthetic phenomena that reflects and impacts upon various cultural intercourses -- from art and