Overview
- Deals with the functional perspectives of varying dance practices in India
- Draws attention to existing discussions on dance as an embodied expression of the political in everyday life
- Brings together the historical and contemporary dance in India in the current times
Part of the book series: Performance Studies & Cultural Discourse in South Asia (PSCDSA, volume 2)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Urmimala Sarkar Munsi is a social anthropologist specialized in dance studies and a dancer/choreographer. She is A PROFESSOR AND THE CURRENT DEAN, TEACHING critical dance studies and research methodology in performance studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She is the president of World Dance Alliance Asia Pacific. Her latest books are Uday Shankar and his Transcultural Experimentations: Dancing Modernity, published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2022, and Alice Boner Across Arts and Geographies: Shaping the Dance Art of Uday Shankar, published by the Alice Boner Institute, Varanasi in 2021. She has co-edited the MARG 75th year Readings on Dance in 2022. Her ongoing research on survival strategies for women survivors of sexual violence has yielded many writings, among which the recent most is "Towards a Pedagogic Analysis of Dance and Movement Therapy" in The Routledge Companion to AppliedPerformance, 2021. Her essay "Being Rama: Playing a God in the Changing Times" (published in Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha edited Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments, 2021) came out of her involvement in the Global Humanities Institute and Melon Foundation funded project "Crisis of Democracy" in 2018-2019.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mapping Critical Dance Studies in India
Authors: Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
Series Title: Performance Studies & Cultural Discourse in South Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7359-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-7358-3Published: 15 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-7361-3Due: 15 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-7359-0Published: 14 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2731-5088
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5096
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 285
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Dance, Performing Arts, Gender Studies