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Traversing Tradition : Celebrating Dance in India.

This book documents and celebrates the emergence of contemporary dance practice in India. It includes contributions from scholars, writers, commentators as well as Indian artists and questions the uneasy relationship that exists between the insular world of dance and outside reality.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Munsi, Urmimala Sarkar
Otros Autores: Burridge, Stephanie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Traversing TraditionCelebrating Dance in India; Copyright Page; Contents????????????????????????????????????????; Foreword by Ratan Thiyam; Preface by Stephanie Burridge; Acknowledgements????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????; Introduction: Urmimala Sarkar Munsi and Stephanie Burridge; 1. Dance Scholarship and its Future: The Indian Context: Kapila Vatsyayan; 2. Institutionalization of Classical Dances of India: Kalakshetra
  • The Principal Case Study: Sunil Kothari.
  • 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.
  • Artists' Voices and Biographies: Amala Shankar, Anita Ratnam, Anusha Lall, Astad Deboo, Alarmel Valli, Bimbavati Devi, Jayachandran Palazhy, Leela Samson, Madhavi Mudgal, Madhu Nataraj, Mallika Sarabhai, Maya Krishna Rao, Navtej Johar, Padmini Chettur, Santosh Nair, Syed Sallauddin Pasha, Uttara AshaCoorlawala, Zohra and Kiran SegalCritics' Voices and Biographies: Leela Venkataraman and Shanta Serbjeet Singh; Index???????????????????????????????