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 Singh and Ray Clark, showing the extremely talented dancer-choreographer in performance. Chakraborty's long introduction offers a penetrating study of Ranjabati, who committed suicide at the age of 36, right in the midst of an intense phase of choreographic activity.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 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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