Lexington Books
Pages: 216
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4985-0551-2 • Hardback • January 2016 • $93.00 • (£72.00)
978-1-4985-0553-6 • Paperback • September 2017 • $42.99 • (£33.00)
978-1-4985-0552-9 • eBook • January 2016 • $40.50 • (£31.00)
Mythili Anoop teaches at Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management University.
Varun Gulati teaches English literature at the University of Delhi.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction Mythili Anoop and Varun Gulati IRepresentations- The Sacred and the Profane
C R Rajendran - The Indian Dancing Girl in Early Colonial Travel Writing
Ruchika Sharma IIHistories in Process - Unraveling Mohiniyattam’s Outlaw
Justine Lemos - Building a Natyashastra
Anandi Salinas - East and West, Araimandi and Arabesque: The Emergence of Indian Dance in the American Performing Arts Scene
Kelli Ling and Sushmita Arunkumar IIINegotiations - Working Through the ‘Difficult Whole’: Analyzing Ananya Chatterjea's Mohona: Estuaries of Desire
Kaustvi Sarkar - Changing Landscape of Dance in South India - Effect of Economic Liberalization on Dance Practices and Patronage
Veena Basavarajaiah - Dancing Narratives: Performing Mythology in Globalized Spaces Mythili Anoop
- Picturing Dance
Divya Venkatesh IVOther Presences- Thidambu Nrittham: A Practitioner’s Perspective
Puthumana Govindan Namboodiri- Listening to ‘Women of God’: A Report on a Journey from real to Reel
Melvin Pinto S J About the ContributorsIndex
A collection of essays by authors with credentials ranging from purely academic to dance and other occupations, this volume examines issues in representations of dance and dancers, stories and histories of dance traditions and displacement, and negotiation of aesthetics.... [T]his book represents an effort to write outside the now-traditional expositions on India’s dance traditions, and as such, it is commendable. Summing Up: Recommended ... Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.
— CHOICE
This fascinating book is not one to be read in haste, because the essays it contains both deserve and require a great deal of concentration. They will reward such attention because they reveal painstaking research on numerous aspects of the manifold forms of classical Indian dance. Careful study will bring a great deal to light not only about those dance traditions, but also about the complex sociopolitical problems that have often bedeviled their performers (as well as scholars) in the twentieth century and beyond.... I highly recommend this book to those who wish to delve further into the rich field of Indian dance. The bibliographies attached to the various chapters are, in themselves, valuable resources.
— Journal of Dance Education