TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chakravorty, Pallabi
AU  - Gupta, Nilanjana
TI  - Dance matters: performing India 
SN  - 9780415553759
U1  - 792.80954 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Performing Arts
KW  - Dance
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Historiography
N1  - 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

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