Dance occupies a prestigious place in Indian performing arts, yet it curiously, to a large extent, has remained outside the arena of academic discourse. This book documents and celebrates the emergence of contemporary dance practice in India. Incorporating a multidisciplinary approach, it includes contributions from scholars, writers and commentators as well as short essays and interviews with Indian artists and performers; the latter add personal perspectives and insights to the broad themes discussed.

Young Indian dance artists are courageously charting out new trajectories in dance, diverging from the time-worn paths of tradition. The classical forms of Bharatnatyam, Kathak, Odissi and Manipuri, to name a few, are rich resources for choreographers exploring contemporary dance. This volume speaks about their struggles of working within and outside tradition as they grapple with national and international audience expectations as well as their own values and sense of identity.

The artists represented here continue to question the uneasy relationship that exists between the insular world of dance and outside reality. Simultaneously, they are actively creating new dance languages that are both articulate in a performative context and demand examination by researchers and critics.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge India

Year

2012

ISBN

9781136703782

Edition

Topic

Media & Performing Arts

Subtopic

Dance

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Foreword by Ratan Thiyam
Preface by Stephanie Burridge
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Dance Scholarship and its Future: The Indian Context
2. Institutionalization of Classical Dances of India: Kalakshetra — The Principal Case Study
3. Questions for the Modern Dance Teacher: Child–Parent Responses to Modern Dance Education
4. Writing out Otherness: Dancing Asian-Indian
5. Why I Am Committed to a Contemporary South Asian Aesthetic: Arguments about the Value of ‘Difference’ from the Perspective of Practice
6. Reading Dance, Performing Research: Meaning, Interpretation, Context, and Re-contextualization in Dance Performance and Research
7. Imag(in)ing the Nation: Uday Shankar’s Kalpana
8. In Dialogue with Histories: The Dancer and the Actress
9. The Beauty Myth and Beyond: Looking at the Bollywood ‘Item Number’
10. The Altered Space: Community Dances from Everyday to the Proscenium
11. Patronage, Politics of Culture and the Dancing Body of the Other: A North-east Indian Experience
12. Empowering through Dance Movement Therapy
Artists’ Voices and Biographies
Critics’ Voices and Biographies
Index