Uday Shankar and His Transcultural Experimentations: Dancing Modernity

Author:   Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
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9783030932237


Pages:   281
Publication Date:   01 June 2022
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Author:   Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.519kg
ISBN:  

9783030932237


ISBN 10:   3030932230
Pages:   281
Publication Date:   01 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Chapter 1 Uday Shankar and Indian Dance History.- Chapter 2 Modern Dance? Placing Shankar’s Transculturality in Colonial South Asia.- Chapter 3 Dancing ‘Oriental’ Masculinity: Uday Shankar and his Experiments in Modern Dance.- Chapter 4 An attempt at creating a modern institution.- Chapter 5 Beyond the Proscenium with Dance, Magic, and Film.- Chapter 6 The Illusive Legacy.

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Urmimala Sarkar Munsi is Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her research interests include the role of Anthropology in critical dance studies; gender,  materiality and lived experience  in dance; contemporary choreography; and performance documentation. Urmimala’s previous publications include Moving Space: Women in Dance (2018, co-edited with Aishika Chakraborty), Engendering Performance: Indian Women Performers Searching for Identity (2010, co-authored with Bishnupiya Dutt), Traversing Tradition: Celebrating Dance in India (2010, co-edited with Stephanie Burridge), and the edited collection Dance: Transcending Borders (2008).

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