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Titolo: |
Traversing tradition : celebrating dance in India / / editors, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Stephanie Burridge
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Pubblicazione: | New Delhi, India ; ; London, : Routledge, 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
Disciplina: | 792.80954 |
Soggetto topico: | Dance - India |
Folk dancing - India | |
Altri autori: |
MunsiUrmimala Sarkar
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 3. Questions for the Modern Dance Teacher: Child-Parent Responses to Modern Dance Education: Ranjita Karlekar4. Writing out Otherness: Dancing Asian-Indian: Uttara Asha Coorlawala; 5. Why I Am Committed to a Contemporary South Asian Aesthetic: Arguments about the Value of 'Difference' from the Perspective of Practice: Ananya Chatterjea; 6. Reading Dance, Performing Research: Meaning, Interpretation, Context, and Re-contextualization in Dance Performance and Research: Shrinkhla Sahai; 7. Imag(in)ing the Nation: Uday Shankar's Kalpana: Urmimala Sarkar Munsi |
8. In Dialogue with Histories: The Dancer and the Actress: Bishnupriya Dutt9. The Beauty Myth and Beyond: Looking at the Bollywood 'Item Number': Priyanka Basu; 10. The Altered Space: Community Dances from Everyday to the Proscenium: Debanjali Biswas and Anirban Ghosh; 11. Patronage, Politics of Culture and the Dancing Body of the Other: A North-east Indian Experience: Lokendra Arambam; 12. Empowering through Dance Movement Therapy: Sohini Chakraborty | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Dance occupies a prestigious place in Indian performing arts, yet it curiously, to a large extent, has remained outside the arena of academic discourse. This book documents and celebrates the emergence of contemporary dance practice in India. Incorporating a multidisciplinary approach, it includes contributions from scholars, writers and commentators as well as short essays and interviews with Indian artists and performers; the latter add personal perspectives and insights to the broad themes discussed.Young Indian dance artists are courageously charting out new trajectories i |
Titolo autorizzato: | Traversing tradition ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-136-70379-9 |
0-203-81396-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819218703321 |
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