| Description |
xii, 225 pages ; 29 cm |
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Abstract and notes on presenters -- Trans-locational dance study: the educational efficacy and outcomes of a field trip from the University of Otago, New Zealand to South India / Alison East and Bindu Rajendren -- Re-searching the role and contribution of pioneering foreigners in the revival of classical Indian dance (1920-47) / Ashish Mohan Khokar -- A circle of life / Barbara Snook -- Staged aesthetics and politics of Ramayana in the Philippines / Basilio Esteban S. Villaruz -- Contemporary Asian dance: priortizing Asian / Caren Carino -- Dancing the thesis: potentials and pitfalls in practice-led research / Cheryl Stock, Maggi Phillips, Kim Vincs -- A rakish angle / Dianne Reid -- Traditional martial practices in Orissa and their impact on Orissa dance-forms / Ileana Citarasti -- Amrita performing arts: creating a platform for contemporary dance in Cambodia / Fred Frumberg -- Indian dance orphaned: chandralekha / Leela Venkataraman -- Patronage, politics of culture and the dancing body of the other: a Northeast Indian experience / Lokendra Arambam -- Restructuring tradition: and experiment in introduction of dance pedagogy in an indigenous dance form of Bangladesh / Lubna Marium -- Presenting Islamic representations in the dances of maritime Southeast Asia / Mohd Anis Md Nor -- Extending dance to society / Navina Jafa -- Evaluating postgraduate dance research in South Pacific / Nicholas Rowe and Ralph Black -- How black is black? The 'Atis' on their way to a Philippine festival / Patrick Alcedo -- Research - and questions of non-sense / Paul Romano -- From 'Phra Lor' to 'Jai Jao Lor': representing presentation in Thailand's hybrid dance traditions / Pornat Damrhung -- Natya yoga - the yoga of performing arts / Priyadarshini Ghosh -- Bollywood item numbers - a carnival out of everyday / Priyanka Basu -- Questions for the modern dance teacher child-parent responses to modern dance education / Ranjita Karlekar -- The nautch girl: the dancing gitl in the European gaze / Ruchika Sharma -- Rewriting choreography: unfaithful and deterritorialized translations / Sandra Ch atterjee and Cynthia Lee -- What is creativity? A process or an impulse? How does the artistic process mutate to re-present creativity? / Shanta Serbjeet Singh -- Trajectories of intensity. Looking at structured improvisation in the Weight of the Thing Left its Mark / Shaun McLeod -- Reading dance, performing research: meaning, interpretation, context and re-contextualisation in dance performance and research / Shrinkhla Sahai -- Exploring dance - the aquatic predicament / Shreeparna Ghosal -- Hands that don't want anything (dancing with Kirstie Simson) / Simon Ellis -- In the path of the lotus: re-searching Buddha in the language of Indian dance / Siri Rama -- Empowering through dance movement therapy / Sohini Chakraborty -- Transcending temple principles, facing the proscenium: an investigation into Bipin Singh's style of Manipuri dance / Srutti Bandopadhay -- Extrinsic and intrinsic approaches to choreography: contradictions and dilemmas / Stephanie Burridge -- Unraveling the elusive: a teacher's perspective within a community integrated dance class / Sue Cheesman -- Documenting Gotipua dancers: issues of caste, gender, sex, and female impersonation / Sunil Kothari -- Developing dance and using dance as a tool for development / Tania Kopytko -- A neglected chapter in the history of Indian 'classical' dances: the East - West interactions (1889-1947) / Tiziana Leucci -- Tale of the professional woman dancer in folk traditions in India / Urmimala Sarkar Munsi |
| Summary |
Conference papers of the Re-searching dance conference organised by World Dance Alliance. World Dance Alliance has laid immense importance on equal and simultaneous emphasis on creating a platform for discussions and debate on practice and theory of dance in its previous conferences. In keeping with its past practice the 2009 WDA event has been planned on the theme “Re-Searching Dance.” In an attempt to open up the conference to all individuals who are concerned with important areas of dance-research in the context of society, politics, pedagogy, kinetics, vocabulary, documentation, gender, history and other topics of contemporary relevance. The principal areas in focus are: Movement, kinetics and society, Presentation and representation, Dance pedagogy of today |
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Includes bibliograhical references |
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Dance -- Congresses.
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Dance -- Research -- Congresses.
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Dance -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Dance -- Political aspects -- Congresses.
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Dance -- Study and teaching -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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World Dance Alliance.
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