Contemporary Indian dance: creative choreography towards a new language of dance in India and the diaspora / Ketu Katrak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katrak, Ketu H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--India.

Dance.

India.

Physical Description:

ix, 255 pages ; cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

Contemporary Indian Dance delineates a new language of dance - multi- layered and multi-vocal- in India and the diaspora. This language unfolds at the intersection of classical Indian dance forms with yoga, pan-Asian dance and martal arts traditions as well as modern and postmodern dance, and theatrical tools that result in hybrid dance creations. Cutting edge themes ethnicity, gender and sexuality - are inspired by artists geographical locations in the global North or South.

This study is grounded historically (the revival of Indian classical dance in the early 20th century), and examines today's phenomena of globalization and diaspora that impact artiste in India and worldwide. It includes creative choreography {with over 30 images) from selected artists and pioneers that has impact and reverberates in 'an ancestry of gesture' in the work of emerging choreographers. An interdisciplinary and comparative approach makes visible interconnections among artists in sites as distant and disparate as Toronto to Chennai, and London to Los Angeles. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780230278554

0230278558

OCLC:

713185401