Scripting Dance in Contemporary India (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Anoop, Maratt Mythili; Gulati, Varun

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As stories of Indian dance's renaissance span almost a full century, there has emerged a globally dispersed community of Indian dancers, scholars and audiences who are deeply committed to keeping these traditions alive and experimenting with traditional dance languages to grapple with contemporary themes and issues. Scripting Dance in Contemporary India is an edited volume that contributes to this field of Indian dance studies. The book engages with multiple dance forms of India and their representations. The contributions are eclectic, including writings by both scholars and performers who share their experiential knowledge. There are four sections in the book - section I titled, "Representations' has three chapters that deal with textual representations and illustrations of dance and dancers, and the significance of those representations in the present. Section II titled, "Histories in Process" consists of two chapters that engage with the historiographies of dance forms and suggest that histories are narratives that are continually created. In the third section, "Negotiations", the four chapters address the different ways in which dance is embedded in society, and the different ways in which the aesthetics of a form has to negotiate with social, economic and political imperatives. The final section, "Other Voices/ Other Bodies" brings voices which are outside the mainstream of dance as 'serious' art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216213277
• Artikelnr.: 74830607

Autorenporträt

Mythili Anoop teaches at Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management University. Varun Gulati teaches English literature at the University of Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Mythili Anoop and Varun Gulati I
Representations 1.The Sacred and the Profane C R Rajendran 2.The Indian
Dancing Girl in Early Colonial Travel Writing Ruchika Sharma II Histories
in Process 3.Unraveling Mohiniyattam's Outlaw Justine Lemos 4.Building a
Natyashastra Anandi Salinas 5.East and West, Araimandi and Arabesque: The
Emergence of Indian Dance in the American Performing Arts Scene Kelli Ling
and Sushmita Arunkumar III Negotiations 6.Working Through the 'Difficult
Whole': Analyzing Ananya Chatterjea's Mohona: Estuaries of Desire Kaustvi
Sarkar 7.Changing Landscape of Dance in South India - Effect of Economic
Liberalization on Dance Practices and Patronage Veena Basavarajaiah 8.
Dancing Narratives: Performing Mythology in Globalized Spaces Mythili Anoop
9.Picturing Dance Divya Venkatesh IV Other Presences 10.Thidambu Nrittham:
A Practitioner's Perspective Puthumana Govindan Namboodiri 11.Listening to
'Women of God': A Report on a Journey from real to Reel Melvin Pinto S J
About the Contributors Index