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About this book
Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this bookdelineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers' creative landscape, whilecutting-edge creative choreography parodies gender and cultural stereotypes, and represents social issues.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Frontispiece
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Glossary
- Preface: Multiple Idioms of Contemporary Indian Dance
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Contested Histories: “Revivals” of Classical Indian Dance and Early Pioneers of Contemporary Indian Dance
- 2 Abstract Dance with Rasa: Pioneers Astad Deboo and Shobana Jeyasingh
- 3 Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Choreography by Masters of Traditional Indian Dance and Emerging Innovators
- 4 Hybrid Artists and Transnational Collaborations: Chennai, Toronto, Kuala Lumpur
- 5 Dancing in the Diaspora Part I: North America
- 6 Dancing in the Diaspora Part II: Britain
- Conclusion: Ways of Looking Ahead
- Notes
- A Selected Bibliography
- Index