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Contemporary Indian Dance - (Studies in International Performance) by K Katrak (Paperback)

Contemporary Indian Dance - (Studies in International Performance) by  K Katrak (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers' creative landscape, while cutting-edge creative choreography parodies gender and cultural stereotypes, and represents social issues.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"To read Katrak's book is to come away with a sense of delight in how far dance writing has come in capturing layered and multiple activities, perceptions, and knowledge." - Uttara Asha Coorlawala, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ketu H. Katrak, born in Bombay, India, is Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA. She has served as Founding Chair of UCI's Department of Asian American Studies (1996-2004) and she is the author of <em>Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers</em>, <em>Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy</em>, and essays published in the fields of dance, drama and performance, south-Asian literary and cultural expression, and postcolonial and diaspora literature and culture.

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