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Contemporary Indian Dance

New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora

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  • © 2011

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  1. Ketu H. Katrak
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Part of the book series: Studies in International Performance (STUDINPERF)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-25

  3. Contested Histories: “Revivals” of Classical Indian Dance and Early Pioneers of Contemporary Indian Dance

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    Pages 26-55

  4. Abstract Dance with Rasa: Pioneers Astad Deboo and Shobana Jeyasingh

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    Pages 56-83

  5. Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Choreography by Masters of Traditional Indian Dance and Emerging Innovators

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    Pages 84-122

  6. Hybrid Artists and Transnational Collaborations: Chennai, Toronto, Kuala Lumpur

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    Pages 123-153

  7. Dancing in the Diaspora Part I: North America

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    Pages 154-199

  8. Dancing in the Diaspora Part II: Britain

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    Pages 200-219

  9. Conclusion: Ways of Looking Ahead

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    Pages 220-222

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 223-255
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About this book

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.

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"To read Katrak's book is to come away with a sense of delight in how far dance writing has come in capturing layered and multiple activities, perceptions, and knowledge." - Uttara Asha Coorlawala, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA

About the author

Ketu H. Katrak, born in Bombay, India, is Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA. She has served as Founding Chair of UCI's Department of Asian American Studies (1996-2004) and she is the author of Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers, Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy, and essays published in the fields of dance, drama and performance, south-Asian literary and cultural expression, and postcolonial and diaspora literature and culture.

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