This is How We Dance Now!
Performance in the Age of Bollywood and Reality Shows
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9780199477760
Publication date:
03/10/2017
Hardback
228 pages
Price: 875.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199477760
Publication date:
03/10/2017
Hardback
228 pages
Pallabi Chakravorty
The author offers fascinating, multi-layered analyses into cosmopolitan modernity and the changing visual culture of liberalizing India. Using the lens of dance and dancers, this book offers deep insights into some of the most profound changes taking place in Indian culture today.
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Pallabi Chakravorty
Description
This book is the first scholarly study of Indian dance reality shows and the attendant celebrity culture. It presents an ethnographic and behind-the-scenes study of the lives of reality show dancers and choreographers in obscure and well-known corners of Mumbai and Kolkata. The dancers’ classes, rehearsals, aspirations, and voices—which are often hidden from public gaze—are explored in detail, along with the themes of subjectivity, media-embodiment, pedagogy, gender identity, and social mobility. These explorations are framed by new and original intersections of ideas from the fields of anthropology, dance studies, philosophy, media studies, gender studies, and postcolonial theory. The author offers fascinating, multi-layered analyses into cosmopolitan modernity and the changing visual culture of liberalizing India. Using the lens of dance and dancers, this book offers deep insights into some of the most profound changes taking place in Indian culture today.
About the Author
Pallabi Chakravorty is Associate Professor in the Department of Music and Dance at Swarthmore College, USA.
Pallabi Chakravorty
Table of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Lens on Reality
2. Ways of Seeing
3. Screens and Dances
4. Flexing and Remixing Bodies
5. Mediated Subjectivities
6. A Struggle for Identity
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Pallabi Chakravorty
Features
- Provides detailed ethnographic accounts of Indian dance reality shows and celebrity culture
- Situates Bollywood dance and dance reality shows at the center of the changing visual culture in India
- Explains new practices of bodily knowledge transmission and as well as the emerging aesthetics of Indian dance forms
Pallabi Chakravorty
Review
‘Although multiple dance scholars have attended to British and American reality television dance shows, Pallabi Chakravorty’s groundbreaking book is the first to examine the localized production of this genre within India. Using archival and ethnographic methods, and the theoretical framework of a “remix” aesthetic, This Is How We Dance Now considers the changing tastes and values, shifting pedagogies, new gender representations, and the move towards a desiring consumerism through the lens of the dancing body. This sensitive account traces the influence of Bombay film industry and the stories of individual dancers to provide a compelling analysis of competition dance.’
—Sherril Dodds, Professor of Dance, Director of Institute of Dance Scholarship, Temple University, USA.
Description
This book is the first scholarly study of Indian dance reality shows and the attendant celebrity culture. It presents an ethnographic and behind-the-scenes study of the lives of reality show dancers and choreographers in obscure and well-known corners of Mumbai and Kolkata. The dancers’ classes, rehearsals, aspirations, and voices—which are often hidden from public gaze—are explored in detail, along with the themes of subjectivity, media-embodiment, pedagogy, gender identity, and social mobility. These explorations are framed by new and original intersections of ideas from the fields of anthropology, dance studies, philosophy, media studies, gender studies, and postcolonial theory. The author offers fascinating, multi-layered analyses into cosmopolitan modernity and the changing visual culture of liberalizing India. Using the lens of dance and dancers, this book offers deep insights into some of the most profound changes taking place in Indian culture today.
About the Author
Pallabi Chakravorty is Associate Professor in the Department of Music and Dance at Swarthmore College, USA.
Reviews
‘Although multiple dance scholars have attended to British and American reality television dance shows, Pallabi Chakravorty’s groundbreaking book is the first to examine the localized production of this genre within India. Using archival and ethnographic methods, and the theoretical framework of a “remix” aesthetic, This Is How We Dance Now considers the changing tastes and values, shifting pedagogies, new gender representations, and the move towards a desiring consumerism through the lens of the dancing body. This sensitive account traces the influence of Bombay film industry and the stories of individual dancers to provide a compelling analysis of competition dance.’
—Sherril Dodds, Professor of Dance, Director of Institute of Dance Scholarship, Temple University, USA.
Table of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Lens on Reality
2. Ways of Seeing
3. Screens and Dances
4. Flexing and Remixing Bodies
5. Mediated Subjectivities
6. A Struggle for Identity
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
