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The Moving Space: Women in Dance

 
Urmimala Sarkar Munsi . (Editor) Aishika Chakraborty (Editor)
Synopsis

Aimed at addressing the lacunae in academic publications on women dancers in India, The Moving Space highlights the idea of the ‘space’ created, occupied and negotiated by women in Indian dance. It initiates a conversation between dance scholarship and women’s studies, and brings together scholars from a multidisciplinary background, emphasizing that research and practice have roots in both these specific areas. This book takes dance as a critical starting point, and endeavours to create an inclusive discourse around the female dancer and the historic, gendered and contested ‘space(s)’ that accommodate or are created by her. Highlighting the scope and necessity of using feminist theories in understanding complex relationships between individual experiences, gendered representation and cultural constructions in the realm of dance in India, it traces the lived experience of the dancer-her movements, her voice and her subjectivity. This collection of essays contextualizes women dancers from diverse historical and social milieu-from temple to courtyard, from silver screen to dance bars and from national to regional stages-within the larger rubric of dance studies, and brings out stories of survival, struggle, empowerment, subjugation and subversion.

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About the authors

Urmimala Sarkar Munsi .

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 anthoropologist specializing in Dance Studies. She is Co-Chair of the Research and Documentation Network of the world Dance Alliance-Asia Pacific.



Aishika Chakraborty

Aishika Chakraborty, dancer and dance scholar, brings together a comprehensive selection of the dance writings of Ranjabati sircar (1963-99)-essays, seminar papers, interviews, reviews, production notes-illustrating a highly critical and percipient mind discovering and articulating fresh possibilities in the new Indian dance; and critiquing a wide range of international performances from an original point of view; with photographes by avinash Pasricha, Dayanita Singh abd Ray Clark, showing the extremely talented dancer-choreographer in performance. Chakraborty's long introduction offers a penetrating study of Rajabati, who committed suicide at the age of 36, right in the midst of an intense phase of choreographic activity.


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Bibliographic information

Title The Moving Space: Women in Dance
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.12.2017
Edition 1st. ed.
Publisher Primus Books
Language: English
isbn 9789386552501
length 288p.