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Towards a British Natyam: Creating a British Classical Indian Dance Tradition

Towards a British Natyam: Creating a British Classical Indian Dance Tradition

Gorringe, Magdalen

Hardcover

Series: Dance and Performance Studies, Book 16

DanceAnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1805398490
ISBN13: 9781805398493
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Feb 1 2025
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The story of the emerging professionalization of classical Indian dance forms in Britain is wrought with contradictions. Though becoming increasingly popular within mainstream culture, the forms lack the clear routes to vocational training so essential for creating a dance career in the traditional sense. Towards a British Natyam uses this lens to analyze the cultural, social, and political frameworks that make a profession possible within the arts. Innovatively drawing on the work of decolonial theorists and the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Gorringe illuminates the transformative potential of a classical Indian dance profession to decenter white supremacist modes of knowledge formation and recenter pluriversality.

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