Dancing Odissi

Dancing Odissi
Title Dancing Odissi PDF eBook
Author Anurima Banerji
Publisher
Pages 467
Release 2019
Genre Electronic books
ISBN 9780857425676

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Dance, Technology and Social Justice

Dance, Technology and Social Justice
Title Dance, Technology and Social Justice PDF eBook
Author Kaustavi Sarkar
Publisher McFarland
Pages 230
Release 2024-04-10
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1476676143

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This book theorizes dance technique as the Greek techne translated as art, and shows how movement can inspire epistemic, philosophical, and cultural conversations in technology studies. Combining dance studies, religious studies, and technology studies, it argues that dance can be a technology of social justice bringing equanimity, liberation and resistance. It focuses on the eastern Indian art form Odissi and applied experimentations with motion capture technology, virtual reality (VR) gaming, and Arduino. It specifically examines tthe work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT), a Minnesota based contemporary Indian dance company that deconstructs Odissi towards social justice activism.

Odissi and the Geeta Govinda

Odissi and the Geeta Govinda
Title Odissi and the Geeta Govinda PDF eBook
Author Ileana Citaristi
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 245
Release 2022-10-06
Genre History
ISBN 1000780988

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The book attempts to trace an overview of the different components that define the cultural landscape of the state of Odisha in relation to its history, religious cults, art, and literature and to link the development of the various aspects to the role played over the centuries by the Geeta Govinda poem in its different manifestations. From being an important component of the rituals performed in the Jagannath Temple to becoming an essential part of the people’s daily lives and artistic expressions, this immortal poem has exercised its influence on the cultural landscape of the state from its early inception in the twelfth century until present times. Religious beliefs, visual representations, performative expressions, and literary compositions have been influenced by the strong emotional appeal contained in its verses. Its musical structure, spiritual underline and histrionic content have been an essential font of inspiration in the process of the rediscovery of a cultural identity during the last century and continue to exercise a strong influence on the performing arts of the present times. Among all the art forms, the classical style of Odissi dance, the way it has been re-structured in the middle of the last century, is perhaps the one which bears the closest contact with the poem, almost being synonymous with it. The dance’s lyrical quality and its emotional appeal steeped in a long history of association with devotional and spiritual values make it an ideal form of visual expression for the literary content of the poem.

The Dance Orissi

The Dance Orissi
Title The Dance Orissi PDF eBook
Author Mohan Khokar
Publisher
Pages 339
Release 2011
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9788170174387

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Dance Matters Too

Dance Matters Too
Title Dance Matters Too PDF eBook
Author Pallabi Chakravorty
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 297
Release 2018-02-02
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1351116169

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Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India. It forges new avenues of scholarly inquiry and critical engagement and opens the field in innovative ways. This volume builds on Dance Matters (2009), which mapped the interdisciplinary breadth of the field. The chapters presented here continue to underline the uniqueness of a field that is a blend of critical scholarship on aesthetics and performance with the humanities and social sciences. Including diverse material, analytical approaches and perspectives from scholars and practitioners, this multidimensional volume explores debates on dance preservation and tradition in globalizing India, multimedia choreographies and the circulation of dance via electronic media, embodiment and memory, power, democracy and bourgeoning markets, classification and censorship, and corporatization and Bollywood. This tour de force will appeal to those in dance and performance studies, cultural studies, sociology as well as to readers interested in tradition, modernity, gender and globalization.

Odissi, Indian Classical Dance Art

Odissi, Indian Classical Dance Art
Title Odissi, Indian Classical Dance Art PDF eBook
Author Sunil Kothari
Publisher
Pages 158
Release 1990
Genre Dance
ISBN

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment
Title The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment PDF eBook
Author Mark Franko
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 904
Release 2017-11-15
Genre Music
ISBN 0190844787

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint. Synthesizing myriad views on danced reenactment and the manner in which this branch of choreographic performance intersects with important cultural concerns around appropriation this Handbook addresses originality, plagiarism, historicity, and spatiality as it relates to cultural geography. Others topics treated include transmission as a heuristic device, the notion of the archive as it relates to dance and as it is frequently contrasted with embodied cultural memory, pedagogy, theory of history, reconstruction as a methodology, testimony and witnessing, theories of history as narrative and the impact of dance on modernist literature, and relations of reenactment to historical knowledge and new media.