This is How We Dance Now! Performance in the Age of Bollywood and Reality Shows

by Chakravorty, Pallabi

• ISBN13: 9780199477760
• ISBN10: 0199477760
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-02-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Pallabi Chakravorty, Director and Associate Professor, Department of Music and Dance, Swarthmore College

Pallabi Chakravorty is Associate Professor in the department of Music and Dance and also Director of Dance at Swarthmore College, USA. She teaches interdisciplinary theory courses on performance and ethnography, and studio courses in Kathak dance, choreography, and composition. She has been widely published in journals of anthropology, history, dance studies, and literary studies. Her books include Bells of Change: Kathak Dance, Women, and Modernity in India (Seagull/University of Chicago), Performing Ecstasy: The Poetics and Politics of Religion in India (co-edited), Dance Matters: Performing India on Local and Global Stages (co-edited), and Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities (co-edited and forthcoming from Routledge). She is the founder and artistic director of Courtyard Dancers, a non-profit community-centered arts organization based in Philadelphia and Kolkata

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Lens on Reality
2. Ways of Seeing
3. Screens and Dances
4. Flexing and Remixing Bodies
5. Mediated Subjectivities
6. A Struggle for Identity
Bibliography
Index
About the Author