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Author |
: Douglas M. Knight |
Publisher |
: Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2010-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780819569066 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0819569062 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Balasaraswati by : Douglas M. Knight
An intimate portrait of one of the great performing artists of the twentieth century
Author |
: Janet O'Shea |
Publisher |
: Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2007-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0819568376 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780819568373 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis At Home in the World by : Janet O'Shea
The compelling story of a beautiful and versatile South Indian dance form
Author |
: Vatakke Kurupath Narayana Menon |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 46 |
Release |
: 1963 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015023750386 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Balasaraswati by : Vatakke Kurupath Narayana Menon
Author |
: Katherine C. Zubko |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2014-08-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739187296 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739187295 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dancing Bodies of Devotion by : Katherine C. Zubko
Dancing Bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam examines how Bharata Natyam, a traditionally Hindu storytelling dance form, moves across religious boundaries through both incorporating choreography on Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, and Jain themes and the pluralistic identities of participants. Dancers traverse religious boundaries by reformulating an aesthetic foundation based on performative rather than solely textual understandings of rasa, conventionally defined as a formula for how to physically craft emotion on stage. Through the ethnographic case studies of this volume, dancers of Bharata Natyam innovatively demonstrate how the rasa of devotion (bhakti rasa), surprisingly absent from classic dance-related texts, serves as the pivotal framework for expanding on their own interreligious thematic and interpretive possibilities. In contemporary Bharata Natyam, bhakti rasa is not just about enhancing religious experience; instead, these dancers choreographically adapt various religious identities and ideas in order to emphasize pluralistic cultural and ethical dimensions in their work. Through the dancing body, multiple religious and secular interpretations fluidly co-exist.
Author |
: Tracy Pintchman |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2007-03-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198039341 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198039344 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu Tradition by : Tracy Pintchman
In this book, Tracy Pintchman has assembled ten leading scholars of Hinduism to explore the complex relationship between Hindu women's rituals and their lives beyond ritual. The book focuses particularly on the relationship of women's ritual practices to domesticity, exposing and exploring the nuances, complexities, and limits of this relationship. In many cultural and historical contexts, including contemporary India, women's everyday lives tend to revolve heavily around domestic and interpersonal concerns, especially care for children, the home, husbands, and other relatives. Hence, women's religiosity also tends to emphasize the domestic realm and the relationships most central to women. But women's religious concerns certainly extend beyond domesticity. Furthermore, even the domestic religious activities that Hindu women perform may not merely replicate or affirm traditionally formulated domestic ideals but may function strategically to reconfigure, reinterpret, criticize, or even reject such ideals. This volume takes a fresh look at issues of the relationship between Hindu women's ritual practices and normative domesticity. In so doing, it emphasizes female innovation and agency in constituting and transforming both ritual and the domestic realm and calls attention to the limitations of normative domesticity as a category relevant to many forms of Hindu women's religious practice.
Author |
: Ann Cooper Albright |
Publisher |
: Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2003-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0819566489 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780819566485 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Taken by Surprise by : Ann Cooper Albright
First comprehensive overview of improvisation in dance.
Author |
: Rani Iyer |
Publisher |
: Shanti Arts Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 2016-05-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781941830789 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1941830781 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dancing Heart by : Rani Iyer
Dancing Heart offers the experience of a dance recital in the style of Bharathanatyam, one of the oldest dance forms of India. Today this popular dance is presented and experienced all around the world. Intended for elementary and middle-grade readers, this unique and beautiful book promises to engage and inspire the minds and hearts of all who delight in the sights and sounds of this Indian dance.
Author |
: Ravi M. Gupta |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2013-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231531474 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231531478 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bhāgavata Purāna by : Ravi M. Gupta
A vibrant example of living literature, the Bhagavata Purana is a versatile Hindu sacred text written in Sanskrit verse. Finding its present form by the tenth century C.E., the work inspired several major north Indian devotional (bhakti) traditions as well as schools of dance and drama, and continues to permeate popular Hindu art and ritual in both India and the diaspora. Introducing the Bhagavata Purana's key themes while also examining its extensive influence on Hindu thought and practice, this collection conducts the first multidimensional reading of the entire text. Each essay focuses on a key theme of the Bhagavata Purana and its subsequent presence in Hindu theology, performing arts, ritual recitation, and commentary. The authors consider the relationship between the sacred text and the divine image, the text's metaphysical and cosmological underpinnings, its shaping of Indian culture, and its ongoing relevance to contemporary Indian concerns.
Author |
: Theresa Jill Buckland |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2007-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780299218539 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0299218538 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dancing from Past to Present by : Theresa Jill Buckland
This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. The essays find a balance between past and present and examine how dance and bodily practices are core identity and cultural creators. Reaching beyond the typically Eurocentric view of dance, Dancing from Past to Present opens a world of debate over the role dance plays in forming and expressing cultural identities around the world.
Author |
: Hari Krishnan |
Publisher |
: Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2019-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780819578884 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0819578886 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Celluloid Classicism by : Hari Krishnan
Received a special citation from The de la Torre Bueno© First Book Award Committee of the Dance Studies Association (2020). The book has been hailed as "an invaluable addition to the scholarship on Bharatanatyam." Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance. It addresses representations of dance in the cinema from an interdisciplinary, critical-historical perspective. The intertwined and symbiotic histories of these forms have never received serious scholarly attention. For the most part, historians of South Indian cinema have noted the presence of song and dance sequences in films, but have not historicized them with reference to the simultaneous revival of dance culture among the middle-class in this region. In a parallel manner, historians of dance have excluded deliberations on the influence of cinema in the making of the "classical" forms of modern India. Although the book primarily focuses on the period between the late 1920s and 1950s, it also addresses the persistence of these mid-twentieth century cultural developments into the present. The book rethinks the history of Bharatanatyam in the twentieth century from an interdisciplinary, transmedia standpoint and features 130 archival images.