Dance : Transcending Borders

Dance : Transcending Borders

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Author: Rustom Bharucha
Eminent Contributors/
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
Publisher: Tulika
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 268
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788189487386

Description

As globalization forces us to revisit the 'local' in dance, an examination of the processes of identity formation, generation and affirmation becomes very necessary. The world of dance in today's context is constantly being shaped by the nature of the state, politicized markets, the dialogues taking place within and between cultures, as well as the growing importance of multimedia skills.

As the identity of dance and of dancers undergoes constant interrogation and reorganization, there is increasing need to establish dialogues across regions, and to identity and understand the major areas of concern some of which may be common to all while others may e specific to the social-political-historical conditions of particular countries.

This edited volume, a project of the Research and Documentation Network of the World Dance Alliance-Asia Pacific, brings together renowned scholars from the Asia=Pacific region, the Americas and Europe, to discuss issues of global and local importance that are at the centre of contemporary research. It hopes to generate a fruitful inter-regional and /or inter-country understanding of the art form, as the dance and dancers themselves step out and transcend borders.

ABOUT THE EDITOR:

Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, the editor of this volume, is Visiting Faculty at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. A trained dancer and choreographer, she is also a social anthropologist specializing in Dance studies. She is Co-Chair of the Research and Documentation Network of the World Dance Alliance Asia=Pacific.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Contributors

THE ASIA PACIFIC
Remembering Chandra: Points of Reference in the Here and Now:
RUSTOM BHARUCHA

Dancing Divine Iconographies in Southeast Asia
MOHD ANIS MD NOR

From Preserving National Forms to Reviewing Traditions fro the World:
Some Recent Uses of Classical Dance from Mainland Southeast Asia
PORNART DAMRHUNG

Connectivity: Dance Bodies Linking Culture, Site and Technology
CHERYL STOCK

Bounda4ies and Beyond: Problems of Nomenclature in Indian Dance History
URMIMALA SARKAR MUNSI

THE AMERICAS
One plus One Equals Three (or more):
Dance Diversity as Intercultural Dialogues in the Pacific Islands
ADRIENNE L KAEPPLER

Lost Dances:
Preserving the Works of Canadian Contemporary Choreographers
MARY JANE WARNER

Dance's Diversity: A US Perspective
RANDY MARTIN

Caribbean Dance with Cultural and Economic Globalization
As globalization forces us to revisit the 'local' in dance, an examination of the processes of identity formation, generation and affirmation becomes very necessary. Problems and Ideas Regarding Mexican Dance in the 1970s
MARGARITA TORTAJADA-QUIROZ

EUROPE
Indonesian Dance Performance in Britain: Transnational Futures?
ALESSANDRA LOPEZ Y ROYO

Global and Local: Tracing a Danced and Musical Mosaic
JANET ASHEAD-LANSDALE

Dance and the Shifting Sands of Multiculturalism:
Questions from the United Kingdom
ANDERE GRAU

Cross-Culturalism in Dance: A Historical and Ideological Analysis
ANNE DECORET-AHIHA