Dance Matters: Performing India on Local and Global Stages

Contents

• Introduction by Pallabi Chakravorty & Nilanjana Gupta
• PART I Can the Subaltern Dance
• 1. Dancing off-stage: Nationalism and its 'Minor Practices' in Tamil Nadu by Kalpana Ram
• 2. Another Time, Another Space Does the Dance Remain the Same? by Urmimala Sarkar-Munshi
• 3. Folk Culture in Front of Serious Challenge: A Case Study on the Tribes of North Bengal by Samar Biswas & Somnath Bhattacharjee
• 4. The Problematics of Tradition and Talent in Indian Classical Dance by Sreeparna Ghosal
• 5. Dance for Recovery, Healing, and Rehabilitation: Kolkata Sanved Way by Sohini Chakraborty
• PART II Globalization of Indian Dance
• 6. The Ownership of Indian Classical Dancing and Its Performance on the Global Stage by Mandrakanta Bose
• 7. Negotiating Identity: Dance and Religion in British Hindu Communities by Ann David
• 8. Local/Global Histories of Bharatnatyamy by Payal Ahuja
• PART III Aesthetics Embodied and Embedded
• 9. It Matters For Whom You Dance: Audience Participation in Rasa Theory by Uttara Coorlawala
• 10. Manipuri Dance: A Lyrical Manifestation of Devotion by Sruti Bandhopadhyayay
• 11. Swayed by Love: Dance in the Vaishnava Temple Imagery of Bengal by Pika Ghosh
• 12. Remixed Practice: Bollywood Dance and the Global Indian by Pallabi Chakravorty
• PART IV The Gendered Dancing Body
• 13. The Daring Within: Speaking Gender through Navanritya by Aishika Chakraborty
• 14. Re-Exporting 'Tradition': The Transcultural Practice of Kathak in Kolkata and the Creation of a New Female Body by Monica Dalidowicz