Traversing Tradition: Celebrating Dance in India (Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific) - Hardcover

 
9780415617093: Traversing Tradition: Celebrating Dance in India (Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 041561709X ISBN 13: 9780415617093
Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Urmimala Sarkar Munsi is Visiting Faculty, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Vice President ― South Asia, World Dance Alliance ― Asia Pacific.

Stephanie Burridge lectures at Singapore Management University and is a dance critic, author and editor of the book series 'Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific'.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041561709X
ISBN 13 
9780415617093
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
348
Editor
Munsi Urmimala Sarkar, Burridge Stephanie

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781138662889: Traversing Tradition: Celebrating Dance in India (Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  1138662887 ISBN 13:  9781138662889
Publisher: Routledge, 2016
Softcover