Traversing tradition : celebrating dance in India / aedited by Urmimala Sarkar Munsi and Stephanie Burridge ; Foreward by Ratan Tiyam

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Series: Celebrating dance in Asia and the Pacific, 2Publication details: New Delhi : Routledge India, 2011Edition: South Asia EditionDescription: xxvii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:

9781138095915

Subject(s):

Dance -- India

DDC classification:

23 792.80954 T698

Contents:

1. Dance scholarship and its future : the Indian context / Kapila Vatsyayan -- 2. Institutionalization of classical dances in India : Kalakshetra : the principal case study / Sunil Kothari -- 3. Questions for the modern dance teacher : child-parent responses to modern dance education / Ranjita Karlekar -- 4. 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 Dutt -- 9. 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.

Summary: This book, the second in the series, celebrates and documents dance in its various forms in contemporary India. Although dance occupies the most prestigious place of all performing arts in India, curiously, and to a large extent, it remains outside the arena of the academic discourse. Incorporating a multidisciplinary approach, the articles in this anthology are rooted in research on important and relevant issues in

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Includes index.

1. Dance scholarship and its future : the Indian context / Kapila Vatsyayan --
2. Institutionalization of classical dances in India : Kalakshetra : the principal case study / Sunil Kothari --
3. Questions for the modern dance teacher : child-parent responses to modern dance education / Ranjita Karlekar --
4. 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 Dutt --
9. 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.

This book, the second in the series, celebrates and documents dance in its various forms in contemporary India. Although dance occupies the most prestigious place of all performing arts in India, curiously, and to a large extent, it remains outside the arena of the academic discourse. Incorporating a multidisciplinary approach, the articles in this anthology are rooted in research on important and relevant issues in

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