Traversing Tradition

Celebrating Dance in India

By: Urmimala Sarkar Munsi (Editor), Stephanie Burridge (Editor)

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Hardcover | 26 April 2011 | Edition Number 1

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348 Pages

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This book, the second in the series, celebrates and documents dance in its various forms in contemporary India. Although dance occupies the most prestigious place of all performing arts in India, curiously, and to a large extent, it remains outside the arena of the academic discourse. Incorporating a multidisciplinary approach, the articles in this anthology are rooted in research on important and relevant issues in Dance Studies. The volume includes contributions from eminent scholars, writers and commentators as also short essays and interviews with Indian artists who share their stories. These are an invaluable resource and add personal perspectives and insights into the broad themes discussed in the book.

Combining practice and research, the anthology sees scholars, critics and performers, often radical in their views, addressing personal, local or global concerns born within and outside tradition in the changing world. The Indian dance world today reaches beyond the nation's shores into a far-flung diaspora. The artists represented here continue to question perhaps an uneasy relationship that exists between the insular world of dance and an outside reality. They are in the process of actively creating new dance languages that are articulated in a performative context as well as demand investigation by researchers and critics.

Industry Reviews

"Contributing to the increasingly sophisticated literature on Indian dance, this is a welcome addition to dance studies. And it achieves the series purpose of introducing Asian dance into current dance discourse. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."--J. L. Erdman, CHOICE (February 2012)

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