Dance matters: performing India
This is a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and rewritten, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic shape shifted In…
This book is a collection of articles made for Contact quarterly dance journal between 1980 and 1992. BMC provides a frame for studying the complexity of the living, moving body in all aspects of life. A fantastic voyage into the mind of the body, into the intelligence of every …
"James and Annetta White opened the Broken Spoke in 1964, then a mile south of the Austin city limits, under a massive live oak, and beside what would eventually become South Lamar Boulevard. White built the place himself, beginning construction on the day he received his honora…
"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 conversat…
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…
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…
