Performance and culture : narrative, image and enactment in India / by Archana Verma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verma, Archana.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--India.

Dance.

Performing arts--India--History.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book deals with various aspects of performance in India; especially that related to dance and dance-drama. Rather than being a description of the various dance forms of India, it attempts to discuss various social equations and cultural ideas that a performance attempts to portray. In this sense, a performance is a narrative. At the same time, performances also deal with well-known narratives from the religious traditions of India, often redefining and recounting them in the process of p...

Contents:

1. Visual Language of the Divine Dance

Text and Image of Shiva's Dance Sculptures in Indian Temples

2. Satirizing the Ideal

Chaturbhani (A Collection of Four Sanskrit Burlesque Plays from Ancient India)

3. Eroticism in Indian Classical Dance

Odissi

4. Satirizing the Sacred Narrative

Dance-Drama from Kerala

5. Performance in the Folk Expressions of the Women of Mithila

6. Imageries of Power

An Exegesis of Folk Performance Narratives

7. Cinematic Narration, Women Dancers and Cultural Memory of Ancient India

Two Hindi Films Chitralekha (1964) and Amrapali (1966).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-143) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Verma, Archana. Performance and culture : narrative, image and enactment in India

ISBN:

1-283-14274-0

9786613142740

1-4438-2832-7

OCLC:

816845439