Dance matters : performing India /
Dance matters : performing India /
edited by Pallabi Chakravorty and Nilanjana Gupta
- New Delhi : Routledge, 2010.
- xx, 312 p. ; ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents : Introduction / Pallabi Chakravorty and Nilanjana Gupta --
PART I. Can the Subaltern Dance ? --
1. Dancing Off-stage: Nationalism and its "Minor Practices" in Tamil Nadu / Kalpana Ram--
2. Another time, another space -does the dance remain the same? / Urmimala Sarkar-Munshi--
3. Folk culture in front of serious challenge : a case study on the tribes of North Bengal / Samar Kumar Biswas and Somenath Bhattacharjee--
4. The Problematics of tradition and talent in indian classical dance / Shreeparna Ghoshal--
5. Dance as healing: Kolkata sanved / Sohini Chakraborty--
PART II. Globalization of Indian Dance--
6. The Ownership of Indian classical dancing and its performance on the global stage / Mandakranta Bose--
7. Negotiating Identity : dance and religion in british hindu communities / Ann R. David--
8. Local/global histories of Bharatnatyam / Payal Ahuja --
PART III. Aesthetics Embodied and Embedded--
9. It matters for whom you dance : audience participation in rasa theory / Uttara Asha Coorlawala--
10. Manipuri dance : a lyrical manifestation of devotion / Sruti Bandopadhay--
11. Swayed by love : dance in the Vaishnava temple imagery of Bengal / Pika Ghosh--
12. Remixed practice : bollywood dance and the global Indian / Pallabi Chakravorty --
PART IV. The gendered dancing body--
13. The daring within : speaking gender through navanritya / Aishika Chakraborty--
14. Re-Exporting "Tradition": the transcultural practice of Kathak in Kolkata and the creation of a new female body / Monica Dalidowicz--
15. The lords of dance : changing fortunes / Virkam Iyengar--
PART V. Alternative Histories--
16. The politics of memory : the rise of the anti-hero in Kathakali / Mundoli Narayanan--
17. Guru Surendranath Jena : subverting the reconstituted Odissi Canon / Alessandra Lopez y Royo--
18. Courtesans and choreographers : the (re)placement of women in the history of Kathak dance / Margaret Walker.
9780415553759
Performing Arts--Dance--India
Dance --History--India
Dance --Social aspects
Dance --Historiography--India
792.80954 / DAN
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents : Introduction / Pallabi Chakravorty and Nilanjana Gupta --
PART I. Can the Subaltern Dance ? --
1. Dancing Off-stage: Nationalism and its "Minor Practices" in Tamil Nadu / Kalpana Ram--
2. Another time, another space -does the dance remain the same? / Urmimala Sarkar-Munshi--
3. Folk culture in front of serious challenge : a case study on the tribes of North Bengal / Samar Kumar Biswas and Somenath Bhattacharjee--
4. The Problematics of tradition and talent in indian classical dance / Shreeparna Ghoshal--
5. Dance as healing: Kolkata sanved / Sohini Chakraborty--
PART II. Globalization of Indian Dance--
6. The Ownership of Indian classical dancing and its performance on the global stage / Mandakranta Bose--
7. Negotiating Identity : dance and religion in british hindu communities / Ann R. David--
8. Local/global histories of Bharatnatyam / Payal Ahuja --
PART III. Aesthetics Embodied and Embedded--
9. It matters for whom you dance : audience participation in rasa theory / Uttara Asha Coorlawala--
10. Manipuri dance : a lyrical manifestation of devotion / Sruti Bandopadhay--
11. Swayed by love : dance in the Vaishnava temple imagery of Bengal / Pika Ghosh--
12. Remixed practice : bollywood dance and the global Indian / Pallabi Chakravorty --
PART IV. The gendered dancing body--
13. The daring within : speaking gender through navanritya / Aishika Chakraborty--
14. Re-Exporting "Tradition": the transcultural practice of Kathak in Kolkata and the creation of a new female body / Monica Dalidowicz--
15. The lords of dance : changing fortunes / Virkam Iyengar--
PART V. Alternative Histories--
16. The politics of memory : the rise of the anti-hero in Kathakali / Mundoli Narayanan--
17. Guru Surendranath Jena : subverting the reconstituted Odissi Canon / Alessandra Lopez y Royo--
18. Courtesans and choreographers : the (re)placement of women in the history of Kathak dance / Margaret Walker.
9780415553759
Performing Arts--Dance--India
Dance --History--India
Dance --Social aspects
Dance --Historiography--India
792.80954 / DAN