Contemporary Indian Dance: New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora (Studies in International Performance)

✍ Scribed by Ketu Katrak

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers' creative landscape, while cutting-edge creative choreography parodies gender and cultural stereotypes, and represents social issues.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
Frontispiece......Page 5
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Series Editors' Preface......Page 14
Glossary......Page 15
Preface: Multiple Idioms of Contemporary Indian Dance......Page 19
Acknowledgments......Page 28
Theoretical frames: ways of looking at Contemporary Indian Dance......Page 30
"The force of heteroglossia": reference points of Contemporary Indian Dance......Page 42
Rasa: a moving methodology......Page 46
Writing dancing......Page 50
1 Contested Histories: "Revivals" of Classical Indian Dance and Early Pioneers of Contemporary Indian Dance......Page 55
Sadir into bharatanatyam......Page 56
The significant legacies of early pioneers of modernizing Indian dance: Uday Shankar, Chandralekha, and other pioneers......Page 66
2 Abstract Dance with Rasa: Pioneers Astad Deboo and Shobana Jeyasingh......Page 85
Astad Deboo: an "Indian contemporary" dance style......Page 88
Other journeys in abstract dance: Shobana Jeyasingh......Page 104
3 Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Choreography by Masters of Traditional Indian Dance and Emerging Innovators......Page 113
Innovations based on kathak......Page 114
Innovations based on bharatanatyam......Page 127
A journey of discovery: personal language/s in Contemporary Indian Dance......Page 137
Padmini Chettur: contemporary dancer, not Contemporary Indian Dancer......Page 147
4 Hybrid Artists and Transnational Collaborations: Chennai, Toronto, Kuala Lumpur......Page 152
Anita Ratnam: "a contemporary classicist"......Page 154
Challenging stereotypes through hybridity: Hari Krishnan's signature style......Page 169
Ramli Ibrahim's Contemporary Indian Dance......Page 179
5 Dancing in the Diaspora Part I: North America......Page 183
Innovations in form......Page 187
The Post Natyam Collective......Page 189
Parijat Desai......Page 210
Sheetal Gandhi......Page 214
Extensions of tradition in the diaspora......Page 216
Canada......Page 222
Workshops and dance festivals......Page 224
Indian/South Asian/British-South Asian......Page 229
The multidisciplinary and polyvocal new choreography of Akram Khan......Page 236
Conclusion: Ways of Looking Ahead......Page 249
Notes......Page 252
A Selected Bibliography......Page 269
Index......Page 275