Contemporary Indian dance: new creative choreography in India and the diaspora

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-edgecreative choreography parodies gender and cultural stereotypes, and represents social issues. KETU H. KATRAK, born in Bombay, India, is Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA. Founding Chair of UCI's Department of Asian American Studies (1996-2004). 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. INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27855-4
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 20/08/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés