Performance and culture [electronic resource]
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This book deals with various aspects of performance in India; especially that related to dance and dance-drama. Rather than being a description of the various dance forms of India, it attempts to discuss various social equations and cultural ideas that a performance attempts to portray. In this sense, a performance is a narrative. At the same time, performances also deal with well-known narratives from the religious traditions of India, often redefining and recounting them in the process of p...
Title |
Performance and culture [electronic resource] : narrative, image and enactment in India / by Archana Verma. |
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Publisher |
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars |
Creation Date |
2011 |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-143) and index. English |
Content |
1. Visual Language of the Divine Dance -- Text and Image of Shiva's Dance Sculptures in Indian Temples -- 2. Satirizing the Ideal -- Chaturbhani (A Collection of Four Sanskrit Burlesque Plays from Ancient India) -- 3. Eroticism in Indian Classical Dance -- Odissi -- 4. Satirizing the Sacred Narrative -- Dance-Drama from Kerala -- 5. Performance in the Folk Expressions of the Women of Mithila -- 6. Imageries of Power -- An Exegesis of Folk Performance Narratives -- 7. Cinematic Narration, Women Dancers and Cultural Memory of Ancient India -- Two Hindi Films Chitralekha (1964) and Amrapali (1966). |
Extent |
1 online resource (164 p.) |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997010711859105171 |
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