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Book Synopsis Indian Classical Dance by : Leela Venkataraman
Download or read book Indian Classical Dance written by Leela Venkataraman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering eight classical dance forms of India Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, Odissi and Sattriya Leela Venkataraman seamlessly weaves together a historical perspective with the contemporary scenario. Stripped of their association with the temple and the court, classical dance traditions in India went through a series of unprecedented change in the period marking the last few years of British rule and thereafter. From becoming part of the nationalist struggle when India was trying to rediscover its lost identity, to sharing the international stage today with dance forms from all over the world, the last sixty-six years have seen many changes in perspective and presentation of Indian Classical Dance some intentional, others involuntary. While looking at these years closely and their impact on dance forms, one realises that this is a phase in an ongoing process, with each new generation of dancers and musicians adding to an already rich tapestry of tradition."
Book Synopsis Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities by : Sitara Thobani
Download or read book Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities written by Sitara Thobani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its origin. Whereas most previous studies have analysed Indian classical dance in the context of Indian history and culture, this volume situates this dance practice in the longstanding trasnational linkages between India and the UK. What is the relation between the contemporary performance of Indian classical dance and the constitution of national, diasporic and multicultural identity? Where and how does Indian dance derive its productive power in the postcolonial moment? How do diasporic and nationalist representations of Indian culture intersect with depictions of British culture and politics? It is argued that classical Indian dance has become a key aspect of not only postcolonial South Asian diasporic identities, but also of British multicultural and transnational identity. Based on an extensive ethnographic study of performances of Indian classical dance in the UK, this book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, sociology, South Asian studies, Postcolonial, Transnational and Cultural studies, and Theatre and Performance studies.
Book Synopsis Classical and Contemporary Indian Dance by : Uttara Asha Coorlawala
Download or read book Classical and Contemporary Indian Dance written by Uttara Asha Coorlawala and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Yoga of Indian Classical Dance by : Roxanne Kamayani Gupta
Download or read book A Yoga of Indian Classical Dance written by Roxanne Kamayani Gupta and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The yoga and classical dance traditions of India have been inextricably entwined for millennia. The exacting hand gestures, postures and movements of Indian classical dance can only be achieved through yogic concentration. Conversely, the esthetics, symmetry, and dynamism of dance enhance the practice of yoga. These two traditions, so complementary and essential to one another, are united and explicated for the first time in A Yoga of Indian Classical Dance. Twenty-five years ago Roxanne Kamayani Gupta embarked on a journey of dance and yoga, yearning to unlock their mysteries and discover their common origins. As a twenty-year-old student from America she was miraculously and mysteriously absorbed into Indian culture, became a Hindu, and began an odyssey so unusual and unique that the reader will be enchanted by its telling. Choosing the path of the dancer, Roxanne Gupta accomplished what no Western woman had done before: being accepted and trained by Indian masters and then performing in the Indian classical traditions--from the palaces of maharajas to the arts festivals of Europe and America--while at the same time achieving a doctorate in the anthropology of religion and being initiated into a number of yogic traditions. Having mastered the classical form of Kuchipudi dance and studied with teachers of the hatha and kriya yoga traditions, she brings together these two great streams of consciousness and practice. In this tantric approach to yoga and dance, expressed through the body and through a yoga of emotions, we see the traditions embodied in a manner that embraces the totality of the human experience. The result is the dance of the yogini, the sacred feminine initiatress who dances with one foot in nature and the other in the realm of the gods. With extensive photographs of innovative yoga routines, Roxanne Kamayani Gupta distills her experience into techniques for yogic study certain to assist students of all levels to achieve a dynamic, beautiful, and graceful practice.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Indian Dance by : K. Katrak
Download or read book Contemporary Indian Dance written by K. Katrak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Classical Indian Dance by : Kapila Vatsyayan
Download or read book Classical Indian Dance written by Kapila Vatsyayan and published by DK Printworld (P) Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-19 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the result of many years of pain staking research in a field, which had been neglected by art historians, and thus presenting an idealistic view of the whole tradition of Indian art and aesthetics. This definitive work on the inherent interrelationship of the Indian arts is a path-breaking endeavour, treading into a domain which no one had explored. For that to happen, the author has delved deep into enormous mass of literature on the subject and has also surveyed the portrayal of dance figures in ancient temples. With Dr Kapila Vatsyayan’s profound knowledge of various dance forms as a performing artist of her own standing and having studied the sculptures and artefacts minutely, the book emerges so scholarly emanating the wisdom and know-how of a persona, endowed with the unique combination of a researcher, an art historian and an aesthetician par excellence. The book vividly presents, analyses and critiques the varied facets of Indian aesthetics, especially the theory and technique of classical Indian dance, while doing a penetrating study of interrelationship that dancing has with literature, sculpture and music. In doing so, it surveys and analyses the contribution of great Sanskrit authors, theoreticians, playwrights of ancient and classical India such as Bharata, Bhāsa, Kālidāsa, Śūdraka, Bhavabhūti, Abhinavagupta, Jayadeva and many more along with numerous Bhāṣā scholars of arts, aesthetics and literature, covering each and every nook and corner of the Indian subcontinent. This highly scholarly work should invoke keen enthusiasm among Sanskritists, art historians, dancers and students of varied art forms alike, and should pave the way for ongoing researches on all the topics covered within its scope.
Book Synopsis The Sterling Book of INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE by : Shovana Narayan
Download or read book The Sterling Book of INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE written by Shovana Narayan and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India’s rich cultural legacy has been founded on the abiding faith of the Indians in the divine power, whose worship had found expression through dance. ‘Bhakti’ or devotion was the underlying essence of the various dance forms that developed in India. Indian Classical Dances is a unique presentation of the eight classical dance styles – Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi, Manipuri, Mohiniyattam, Odissi and Sattriya, through a concise portrayal of the background of each dance form, the salient features, format of presentation, music and costume. The simplistic approach of the narration coupled with the unique collection of photographs, will enable the lay reader to visualise, comprehend and appreciate the diverse dance forms of India.
Book Synopsis Traversing Tradition by : Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
Download or read book Traversing Tradition written by Urmimala Sarkar Munsi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Scripting Dance in Contemporary India by : Maratt Mythili Anoop
Download or read book Scripting Dance in Contemporary India written by Maratt Mythili Anoop and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As stories of Indian dance’s renaissance span almost a full century, there has emerged a globally dispersed community of Indian dancers, scholars and audiences who are deeply committed to keeping these traditions alive and experimenting with traditional dance languages to grapple with contemporary themes and issues. Scripting Dance in Contemporary India is an edited volume that contributes to this field of Indian dance studies. The book engages with multiple dance forms of India and their representations. The contributions are eclectic, including writings by both scholars and performers who share their experiential knowledge. There are four sections in the book – section I titled, “Representations’ has three chapters that deal with textual representations and illustrations of dance and dancers, and the significance of those representations in the present. Section II titled, “Histories in Process” consists of two chapters that engage with the historiographies of dance forms and suggest that histories are narratives that are continually created. In the third section, “Negotiations”, the four chapters address the different ways in which dance is embedded in society, and the different ways in which the aesthetics of a form has to negotiate with social, economic and political imperatives. The final section, “Other Voices/ Other Bodies” brings voices which are outside the mainstream of dance as ‘serious’ art.
Book Synopsis New Directions in Indian Dance by : Sunil Kothari
Download or read book New Directions in Indian Dance written by Sunil Kothari and published by Marg Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains Contributions Of Dancers, Choreographers, Inn Ators, Scholars And Scholars Which Cover A Wide Range Of Topics Which Mirror The New Directions Indian Dance Is Taking. Explores The Tradition Of Abstraction, Martial Arts And Other Dance Traditions. Also Covers Issues Of Inter-Culturalism And Modernism. Generously Illustrated The Book Reveals The Mystique Of The New Indian Dance.
Book Synopsis Dance Matters by : Pallabi Chakravorty
Download or read book Dance Matters written by Pallabi Chakravorty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice as they have evolved in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic shifts have shaped Indian dance and its negotiation with modernity.. Written by eminent and emergent scholars and practitioners of Indian dance, the articles make dance a foundational socio-cultural and aesthetic phenomena that reflects and impacts upon various cultural intercourses -- from art and architecture to popular culture, and social justice issues. They also highlight the interplay of various frameworks: global, national, and local/indigenous for studying these diverse performance contexts, using dance as a critical lens to analyse current debates on nationalism, transnationalism, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial politics. At the performace level, some articles question the accepted divisions of Indian dance (‘classical’, ‘folk’, and ‘popular’) and critique the dominant values associated with classical dance forms. Finally, the book brings together both experiential and objective dimensions of bodily knowledge through dance.
Book Synopsis South Asian Dance by : Alessandra Iyer
Download or read book South Asian Dance written by Alessandra Iyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Dance is not what it was. The classical dances of the subcontinent have undergone fission, have been deconstructed and have become part of a contemporary dance idiom. Some of the most innovative work has taken place because of interaction with Western dancers or because it was conceived in a Western and/or global context. Thus the British experience-the work and contribution of Indian dance practitioners based in Britain and working primarily in a British/European context-have been very important for the new development of Indian dance.
Book Synopsis Dhananjayan on Indian Classical Dance by : V. P. Dhananjayan
Download or read book Dhananjayan on Indian Classical Dance written by V. P. Dhananjayan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles on classical Indic dance forms.
Book Synopsis Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism by : Prarthana Purkayastha
Download or read book Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism written by Prarthana Purkayastha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines modern dance as a form of embodied resistance to political and cultural nationalism in India through the works of five selected modern dance makers: Rabindranath Tagore, Uday Shankar, Shanti Bardhan, Manjusri Chaki Sircar and Ranjabati Sircar.
Book Synopsis The Institutional Formation of Contemporary Indian Dance from the Twentieth Century to the Present by : Arushi Singh
Download or read book The Institutional Formation of Contemporary Indian Dance from the Twentieth Century to the Present written by Arushi Singh and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary dance, a field distinctly known for privileging innovation and experimentation, has had a rich century-long history in India and is one of the four major dance genres officially recognized by the Indian government, along with classical, folk, and tribal dance. At crucial historical moments, the Indian state has strategically deployed contemporary dance to advance a multicultural and modern image of the subcontinent to the world at large. Despite holding special significance in Indian political discourse, contemporary dance, compared to classical dance, remains under-theorized within Indian performance scholarship. Additionally, existing literature on contemporary Indian dance predominantly focuses on individual artists, delineating their aesthetic sensibilities, dance making techniques, and choreographies in response to social and political discourses circulating in the subcontinent since the early 1900s. My dissertation is the first study to analyze institutional actions that contributed to the formation and consolidation of contemporary Indian dance from the twentieth century to the current moment when the practice evolved into a global phenomenon. My dissertation investigates three institutions that have centrally engaged with contemporary dance in India: the Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA), the Max Mueller Bhavan (MMB), and the Gati Dance Forum (GDF). I employ multi-sited ethnography, archival research, choreographic analysis, and discourse analysis to ascertain these cultural entities' interventions in the field of contemporary Indian dance. I mainly investigate the following actions mobilized by these institutions to enable the genre's development: policy-making, curating and hosting seminars, conferences, festivals, artistic residencies, and educational programs, conferring awards and honors, and furnishing monetary resources for dance training, creation, performance, and research. In examining these actions, I argue that the three institutions shape the contours of contemporary Indian dance discourse and practice by continually redefining the category and its stakes in line with evolving institutional missions and contingencies. I track what ways these institutions support contemporary dance in relation to the larger cultural, political, and economic changes experienced in India in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries-most notably due to India's shift from a socialist planned-economy to a neoliberal one. My assessment of how the three institutions form the conditions of possibility for contemporary Indian dance builds on a long tradition of critical theory that has generated frameworks for a materialist analysis of cultural production. I also draw from previous scholarship that conceptualizes how the norms, standards, and mechanisms of arts institutions augment and constrain a dance or performance field. Across my three dissertation chapters, I explore the national, bilateral, and local scales of contemporary dance production in India over the last six decades, which covers the time when each institution actively mediated the field. In my first chapter, I probe how the Sangeet Natak Akademi, a performing arts organization founded by the Indian state, assimilated contemporary dance to realize the latter's vision of promoting India's diverse cultural heritage and innovative capacity to compete globally. In my second chapter, I attend to the Max Mueller Bhavan, a network of cultural institutes established across India by the German Federal Foreign Office to facilitate diplomatic relations between the two countries. I interrogate how the MMB "developed" contemporary dance to justify and perpetuate the influence of the West in India. In my third chapter, I assess how the GDF, a performing arts non-profit constituted by contemporary Indian dancers, enabled the practice and ecosystem for experimental choreography by centering on the creative and professional needs of dance exponents. In investigating the above case studies, my dissertation offers critical new insights into the institutionalization of dance modernity in India by evaluating the politics of dance patronage.
Download or read book India's Dances written by Reginald Massey and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dances Of India Are Among The Oldest Dance Genres Still Widely Practiced Today. In Recent Years They Have Become Increasingly Known And Appreciated All Over The World. This Book Details The History Of The Several Styles Of Indian Dance And Gives An Account Of The Cultural, Religious, Social And Political Factors Which Influenced Their Growth And Development. There Are Fascinating Side-Lights On The Etiquette And Mores Of Indian Society. Many Of The Myths And Legends Which Form The Subject Matter Of The Dances Are Recounted And Theories Suggested To Explain Their Inspiration And Sources.This Is A Comprehensive Survey For Readers Who Want To Relate The Classical Dances To The Broader Background Of Indian Culture. For Students, Indian And Non- Indian, It Provides Valuable Historic And Technical Information; And For Dance Lovers It Serves As A Guide Telling Them What To Look For In A Performance. There Is, In Addition, An Overview Of India'S Many Folk Dances. The Glossary Of Terms Germane To The Different Styles Is A Useful Adjunct As Is The Bibliography.In The Latter Part Of This Book The Achievements Of Leading Delhi-Based Dancers Are Recorded And, At The Same Time, New Talent Is Readily Recognized.Written By An Acknowledged Authority, India'S Dances Is, Quite Simply, A Defmitive Volume On Some Of This Country'S Most. Enduring Contributions To World Culture.
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Book Synopsis INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE by : Kapila Vatsyayan
Download or read book INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE written by Kapila Vatsyayan and published by Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. This book was released on 1974 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is a pioneer in Performing arts. This books deals with five classical dance forms of india in detai, viz., Bharatanatyam,Kathakali,orissi,manipuri and Kathak.
