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Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism examines modern dance in India as it emerged simultaneously and in parallel with European and North American modernism in the twentieth century. Through rare archival photographs and interviews with artists, this volume charts the travels and movements over a hundred-year period (1900 2000) of five Indian artists Rabindranath Tagore (1861 1941), Uday Shankar (1900 77), Shanti Bardhan (1916 54), Manjusri Chaki Sircar (1934 2000) and Ranjabati Sircar (1963 99) across and beyond national and international borders. The volume draws attention to the ways in which these transnational journeys significantly impacted on the artists' experimental and political dances and how a clearly feminist consciousness was developed through the dancing body. This book celebrates the revolutionary nature and transformative potential of modern dance within an Indian context.

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