Bharatha Natyam the Dance of India: Demystified for Global Audience

Bharatha Natyam the Dance of India: Demystified for Global Audience
Author: Jayanthi Raman
Publisher: Rasika
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781634528009

Bharatha Natyam The Dance of India: Demystified for Global Audience provides an overview and explanation of Indian dance for the uninitiated, specifically about the popular classical dance from South India, Bharatha Natyam. This is a thorough book, which has material from the ancient texts on dance simplified for easy understanding. The history, mythology, music system, and rhythmic structure, give the readers a synopsis to understand and appreciate the art. Ranging from topics such as the introduction to the ancient classical dance form of India, the book covers wide range of topics such as the history, mythology, literary works on dance, the concert repertoire, the costumes and jewelry, and the cultural content of the art form in a comprehensive manner which is valuable for readers as an introductory book on this art as well as students and practitioners of the dance. The experiences of the author learning dance in India, teaching dance in the United States and the connect between cultures is presented. A comprehensive book for lay public as well as students and practitioners of any genre of dance.

Bharatha Natyam the Dance of India: Grammar and Technique

Bharatha Natyam the Dance of India: Grammar and Technique
Author: Jayanthi Raman
Publisher: Rasika
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781634528016

Bharatha Natyam The Dance of India: Grammar and Technique is a book for all dance students, specifically those learning the popular classical dance from South India, Bharatha Natyam. This is a thorough book, which has material from the ancient texts on dance simplified and even tabulated for easy understanding. The in-depth explanations of music, theater and dance, the technical details of dance including pure dance and expressive elements of dance, adavu units of dance, hand gestures, detailed movements of the body based on the codified rules stated in the dance treatise the Natya Sastra are explained in simple language. The experiences of the author having to market her art and artistic career in US, advice to emerging artists, the creative and technical aspects of dance choreography are also detailed from her personal experience. The book has over 600 full color photographs that help in understanding the technical nuances. A comprehensive book that is valuable guide for students and practitioners of Bharatha Natyam or learning Indian dance as part of world dance.

Balasaraswati

Balasaraswati
Author: Douglas M. Knight
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0819569062

An intimate portrait of one of the great performing artists of the twentieth century

This is How We Dance Now!

This is How We Dance Now!
Author: Pallabi Chakravorty
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199091552

This book is the first scholarly study of Indian dance reality shows and the attendant celebrity culture. It presents an ethnographic and behind-the-scenes study of the lives of reality show dancers and choreographers in obscure and well-known corners of Mumbai and Kolkata. The dancers’ classes, rehearsals, aspirations, and voices—which are often hidden from public gaze—are explored in detail, along with the themes of subjectivity, media-embodiment, pedagogy, gender identity, and social mobility. These explorations are framed by new and original intersections of ideas from the fields of anthropology, dance studies, philosophy, media studies, gender studies, and postcolonial theory. The author offers fascinating, multi-layered analyses into cosmopolitan modernity and the changing visual culture of liberalizing India. Using the lens of dance and dancers, this book offers deep insights into some of the most profound changes taking place in Indian culture today.

India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective

India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective
Author: Dr Margaret E Walker
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2014-09-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1409449505

Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, this enquiry undertakes a critical approach to the history of kathak dance and presents new data about hereditary performing artists, gendered contexts and practices, and postcolonial cultural reclamation. The account that emerges places kathak and the Kathaks firmly into the living context of North Indian performing arts.

Mapping of Space Through Bharatanatyam Sequences

Mapping of Space Through Bharatanatyam Sequences
Author: Nrithya Vilasini Smt. Ramya Shankaran
Publisher: Xlibris Us
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781796052343

This book will help all art lovers to know more about the Theatrical space through the motion of dance and its compositions. To investigate this connection between dance and place, it is imperative to understand the mythical origins of architecture and temple dance. The Hindu philosophy of the cosmic man and its religious relationship with the Dravidian architecture of Tamil Nadu is the starting point of the discussion of a south Indian aesthetic and Performance to it.

Contemporary Indian Dance

Contemporary Indian Dance
Author: K. Katrak
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2011-07-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0230321801

Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers' creative landscape, while cutting-edge creative choreography parodies gender and cultural stereotypes, and represents social issues.

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities
Author: Sitara Thobani
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315387328

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its origin. Whereas most previous studies have analysed Indian classical dance in the context of Indian history and culture, this volume situates this dance practice in the longstanding trasnational linkages between India and the UK. What is the relation between the contemporary performance of Indian classical dance and the constitution of national, diasporic and multicultural identity? Where and how does Indian dance derive its productive power in the postcolonial moment? How do diasporic and nationalist representations of Indian culture intersect with depictions of British culture and politics? It is argued that classical Indian dance has become a key aspect of not only postcolonial South Asian diasporic identities, but also of British multicultural and transnational identity. Based on an extensive ethnographic study of performances of Indian classical dance in the UK, this book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, sociology, South Asian studies, Postcolonial, Transnational and Cultural studies, and Theatre and Performance studies.

At Home in the World

At Home in the World
Author: Janet O'Shea
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2007-05-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780819568373

The compelling story of a beautiful and versatile South Indian dance form