| Description |
xxvii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Celebrating dance in Asia and the Pacific |
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Celebrating dance in Asia and the Pacific.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
Contributed articles presented as a collaborative series initiated by World Dance Alliance, Asia Pacific Center with Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Arts and Aesthetics |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Dance -- India.
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| Author |
Burridge, Stephanie.
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Munsi, Urmimala Sarkar.
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Jawaharlal Nehru University. School of Arts and Aesthetics.
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World Dance Alliance. Asia Pacific Center.
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| LC no. |
2012335214 |
| ISBN |
9780415617093 |
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