Contemporary Indian Dance [[electronic resource] ] : New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora / / by K. Katrak

• Autore: Katrak K
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2011.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 793.31954
• Soggetto topico: Dance; Performing arts; Ethnology—Asia; Arts; Asia—History; Performing Arts; Asian Culture; Asian History
• Classificazione: PER003000PER000000HIS003000
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Frontispiece; List of Illustrations; Series Editors' Preface; Glossary; Preface: Multiple Idioms of Contemporary Indian Dance; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Contested Histories: ""Revivals"" of Classical Indian Dance and Early Pioneers of Contemporary Indian Dance; 2 Abstract Dance with Rasa: Pioneers Astad Deboo and Shobana Jeyasingh; 3 Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Choreography by Masters of Traditional Indian Dance and Emerging Innovators; 4 Hybrid Artists and Transnational Collaborations: Chennai, Toronto, Kuala Lumpur; 5 Dancing in the Diaspora Part I: North America ; 6 Dancing in the Diaspora Part II: BritainConclusion: Ways of Looking Ahead; Notes; A Selected Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers' creative landscape, while cutting-edge creative choreography parodies gender and cultural stereotypes, and represents social issues.
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary Indian Dance
• ISBN: 1-283-26668-7; 9786613266682; 0-230-32180-1; 0-230-32181-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789747703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in International Performance