At Home in the World Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage 1st Edition by Janet O’Shea ISBN 0819568376 9780819568373

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ISBN 10: 0819568376

ISBN 13: 9780819568373 

Author: Janet O’Shea

The compelling story of a beautiful and versatile South Indian dance form

One of the most popular and widely performed dance styles in India and around the world, bharata natyam has made the transition from its beginnings in the temples and courts of southern India to a highly respected international phenomenon. In this study of a classical dance form, author Janet O’Shea tracks the choreographic transformations that accompanied the transfer of bharata natyam to the urban concert stage in the 1930s and 1940s. At Home in the World situates these changes within the political debates of their time, and further ties the concerns of this period to present-day practice. The history of this dance is also a history of India itself, and readers can trace various national struggles over gender identity, regionalism, and globalism through O’Shea’s narrative. With over 250 teachers in the United States alone, bharata natyam offers a remarkable case study of how a traditional art form moves into the world.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction Performing Politics in an Age of Globalization

2. Advertisement for a performance by the devadasis of Pondicherry

3. Egyptian Hall London 1838

4. Anna Pavlova in Hindoo Dance

5. Uday Shankar

6. Rukmini Devi in the twentieth-century bharata natyam costume

7. Ruth St Denis in Radha

8. Statue of Rukmini Devi in front of the Kalakshetra Theatre

9. E Krishna Iyer

10. Balasaraswati’s nayika offers a sarcastic rejoinder to a perfidious lover

11. Mallika Sarabhai in In Search of Devi

12. Unable to Remember Roop Kanwar

13. Ram Gopal

14. Lakshmi Venkataraman and Anandhi Narayanan in Lata Pada’s Cosmos

15. Roger Sinha and Natasha Bakht in Pehla Safar

16. Balasaraswati performing an alarippu

17. Ragini Devi

18. Hari Krishnan as nayika

19. Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company in Romance with Footnotes

20. Rukmini Devi performing the vigorous dance associated with Siva Nataraja

21. Balasaraswati’s sringara bhakti

22. Women’s Questions

23. Afterword Toward a New Transnationalism?

24. Mavin Khoo and Sheena Chundee

25. Notes

26. Glossary

27. Index

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