Inter-Asia in Motion
Dance as Method
- 220 pages
- English
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About this book
This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies.
The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of dance works, artists, genres, and media, from Kathak to K-pop flash mob dance, from Cold War diplomacy to avant-garde dance collaborations, and from festival dance to dance on screen. Working against the Western-centric category of "Asian dance" and Western-centric theorizations of intercultural performance that foreground "East-West" relationships, each contribution shows how dances in Asia make one another as their key aesthetic references beyond Eurocentric influences, as well as how inter-Asia relations emerge from cultural, geographical, and aesthetic diversity within the region. This book is the first of its kind in both cultural studies and dance studies. It will contribute greatly to readers' understanding of how performance shapes and transforms the cultural and political dynamics of inter-Asia, with a focus on dance circulations in and across East, South, and Southeast Asia.
Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Dance Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, International Relations and Politics, History, and Sociology. The chapters included in this book were originally published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 “Gangnam Style” in Dhaka and inter-Asian refraction
- 2 Performing Bandung: China’s dance diplomacy with India, Indonesia, and Burma, 1953–1962
- 3 Choreographing neutrality: dance in Cambodia’s Cold War diplomacy in Asia, 1953–1970
- 4 Geographies of the classical: Kathak across India and Hong Kong
- 5 Inter-Asian dance as method, artistic research as method: Nam Hwayeon’s work on Choi Seung-hee
- 6 The aesthetics of intercultural method: from process to procession in new Indonesian and Indo-Australian dance
- 7 Bharatanatyam and Buddhist diplomacy: inter-Asia significations in Santha Bhaskar’s Anweshana: The Search for Nalanda
- 8 “The nightingale is a graceful dancer”: Bulbul Chowdhury, dance heritage, and the new nation-state of Pakistan
- 9 Dancers in the Japanese entertainment troupe of comfort in the 1940s: traveling along the Burma–China frontline
- 10 Dancing me from South to South: on Wu-Kang Chen and Pichet Klunchun’s intercultural performance
- 11 Japanese dancers, Bollywood dance: finding authenticity at Tokyo’s Namaste India Festival
- 12 Multicultural dance-making in Singapore: Merdeka, youth solidarity and cross-ethnicity, 1955–1980s
- Index