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Improvised futures : encountering the body in performance / edited by Ranjana Dave.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- India since the 90s
- India since the 90s ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance--India.
- Dance.
- Body image in the performing arts.
- India.
- Theater--India.
- Theater.
- Performing arts--India.
- Performing arts.
- Body image in the performing arts--India.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Encountering the body in performance
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Tulika Books ; Shanghai : West Heavens, 2021.
- Summary:
- In an atmosphere of growing authoritarianism, how can we draw attention to performance as a transaction of sensorial agency - the right to be seen, heard, recognized - the right to be palpable? Improvised Futures attempts to frame performance as doing, as fraught negotiations of agency and identity. As it considers the performative effect of a range of ideas, actions and situations that have shaped society and defined cultural expression since the 1990s, it frames the body as a site of radical imagination. The volume comprises texts and artworks by artists, academics and activists, placing these works in conversation with each other in order to elicit new meanings and connections.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-379).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten International Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9788194534822
- 8194534828
- OCLC:
- 1292925043
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