This book critically examines matters of age and aging in relation to dance. As a novel collection of diverse authors voices, this edited book traverses the human lifespan from early childhood to death as it negotiates a breadth of dance experiences and contexts. The conversatio…
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Introduction -- Understanding Hinduism and Vaishnavism -- The Hindu dances of Manipur -- The making of an Australian impresario -- The prince and his master drummer -- The goddess of dancing -- Conclusion. "The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the mo…
"The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularisation of Manipur's Hindu dances in Australia. Tradition has it that the people of Manipur, a northeastern state of India, are descended from the celestial gandharvas, dance an…
"The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularisation of Manipur's Hindu dances in Australia. Tradition has it that the people of Manipur, a northeastern state of India, are descended from the celestial gandharvas, dance an…
South Asian Dance: the British Experience
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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
South Asian dance: the British experience
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This work examines the British experience, the work and contribution of Indian dance practioners based in Britain working primarily in a British/European context and how these factors have contributed to the development of Indian dance.
South Asian dance: the British experience
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Type: Book
This work examines the British experience, the work and contribution of Indian dance practioners based in Britain working primarily in a British/European context and how these factors have contributed to the development of Indian dance.
In this energetic ethnography, anthropologist Adrienne J. Cohen traces the socialist political history that undergirds the practice of stage dance, or "ballet" in Guinea and the rise of private troupes in postsocialist Conakry. Guinean ballet goes hand in hand with state power, …
"Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes un-translated sources, and curating their relationship to a rapidly-changing field, this Reader o…
Choreographing discourses: a Mark Franko reader
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"Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes un-translated sources, and curating their relationship to a rapidly-changing field, this Reader o…