Traversing tradition : celebrating dance in India / / editors, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Stephanie Burridge

• Pubblicazione: New Delhi [India] : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.80954
• Soggetto topico: Dance - India; Folk dancing - India
• Altri autori: BurridgeStephanie MunsiUrmimala Sarkar
• 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.: 9910790175003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Celebrating dance in Asia and the Pacific ; ; 2.