Dance Matters Too

<p><em>Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities</em> is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India. It forges new avenues of scholarly inquiry and critical engagement and opens the field in innovative ways. This volume builds on <i>Dance Matters </i>(2009), which mapped the interdisciplinary breadth of t</p> <p><em>List of Figures. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements.</em> <b>1.<i> </i></b>Dance Matters II: Introduction <b>Part I 2. </b>Mah Laqa Bai: The Remains of a Courtesan’s Dance <b>3. </b>Conflict between Cultural Perpetuation and Environmental Protection: A Case Study of Ritual Performance in North Malabar, South India <b>4. </b>Bodies and Borders: The Odissi Costume Controversy <b>5. </b>I Know It and I Name It as I Do It: Embodied Practice as a Key to Understand Performance <b>6. </b>Cosmopolitan Then and Cosmopolitan Now: Rabindranrtiya Meets Dance Reality Shows <b>Part II 7. </b>Corporatization of Dance: Changing Landscape in Choreography and Patronage since Economic Liberalization in Bengaluru <b>8. </b>Negotiating Space for Dance within the Spectrum of Contemporary Performing Arts in a Globalized India: The Experiences of an Indian Arts Manager <b>9. </b>Bollywood Dance: Desire for the ‘Other’ <b>Part III 10. </b>Rasalila Remixed: Tracing the Dances of an Image <b>11. </b>Why Dance Today in India? A Philosophical Approach <b>12. </b>Playing Dance and Dancing Music: The Work of Intimacy in <i>Kathak </i><b>13. </b>Embodiment, Reflexivity and Practice-as-Research in Indian Dance: A Case Study <b>14. </b>Remixing <i>Natya</i>: Revanta Sarabhai’s <i>LDR</i> and Post <i>Natyam</i> Collective’s <i>Super Ruwaxi</i>: <i>Origins </i><b>Part IV 15. </b>Dancers and Critics: Re-viewing Tagore <b>16. </b>Pedagogy of Manipuri Dance: In and Beyond the Temple Premise <b>17. </b>Text, Context and Interpreter: Understanding the Paradigms of Sattriya Dance and Dancer in the Changing Space <b>18. </b>Why Dancing the Sensual Sculptures Matters? Considering a Sensory Paradigm for Odissi Dance <i>Index</i></p><p></p>