Contemporary Indian Dance: New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9781137472403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 255 str.

Ketu Katrak

Opis

Contemporary Indian Dance, now available in paperback, delineates a new language of dance - multi-layered and multi-vocal - in India and the diaspora. This language unfolds at the intersection of classical Indian dance forms with yoga, pan-Asian dance and martial arts traditions as well as modern and postmodern dance, and theatrical tools that result in hybrid dance creations. Cutting-edge themes - ethnicity, gender and sexuality - are inspired by artists' geographical locations in the global North or South.

This study is grounded historically (the revival of Indian dance in early 20th century), and examines today's phenomena of globalization and diaspora that impact artists in India and worldwide. It includes creative choreography (with over 30 images) from selected artists and pioneers that has impact and reverberates in 'an ancestry of gesture' in the work of emerging choreographers. An interdisciplinary and comparative approach makes visible inter-connections among artists in sites as distant and disparate as Toronto to Chennai, and London to Los Angeles.

Recenzje

"To read Katrak's book is to come away with a sense of delight in how far dance writing has come in capturing layered and multiple activities, perceptions, and knowledge." - Uttara Asha Coorlawala, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgements Preface: Multiple Idioms of Contemporary Indian Dance Glossary Introduction: Theoretical Frames: Ways of Looking at Contemporary Indian Dance Contested Histories of 'Revivals' of Classical Indian Dance and Early Pioneers of Contemporary Indian Dance  Abstract Dance with Rasa: Pioneers Astad Deboo and Shobana Jeyasingh Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Choreography by Masters of Traditional Indian Dance and Emerging Artists Innovating in Contemporary Choreography  Hybrid Artists and Transnational Collaborations: Chennai, Toronto, Kuala Lumpur Dancing in the Diaspora Part I: North America Dancing in the Diaspora Part II: Britain Conclusion: Ways of Looking Ahead Endnotes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Ketu H. Katrak, born in Bombay, India, is Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA. She has served as Founding Chair of UCI's Department of Asian American Studies (1996-2004) and she is the author of Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers, Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy, and essays published in the fields of dance, drama and performance, south-Asian literary and cultural expression, and postcolonial and diaspora literature and culture.