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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 ...
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 photographs by Avinash Pasricha, Dayanita ...