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Tilt Pause Shift - Dance Ecologies in India (Hardcover)
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Tilt Pause Shift - Dance Ecologies in India (Hardcover)
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This book is an investigation of movement, and in particular of a
marked subset of that: dance. In its many peregrinations it seems
to ask, what kind of movement is dance? Most pointedly, it performs
the question, what is dance in India? And, relatedly, what is it to
dance in India? In evidence here is recognition not only of the
diversity and complexity of practice in India, but also of the
contingent (institutional) circumstances under and through which
performances emerge and become visible. This volume assembles
writing that combines description with an analytics of movement
practices in India in our time. Its structure balances and
counterpoints the performative with the analytic. This
balance/counterpoint is maintained in the choice of writers, with
performers writing critically and reflectively about practice, and
theorists, historians, and cultural critics dealing analytically,
and sometimes anecdotally, with broader subjects. The choreographic
portraits, which are brief, thickly descriptive accounts of the
experience of watching dance, are experiments in being attentive to
the embodied. They reiterate, through the materiality and
variousness of the performances they attend to, the necessity of
locally situated viewers and commentators. The essays are
discursive interventions on a wide variety of topics that concern
the many fields of dance practice. The themes dealt with range from
questions of periodization to the thinking in the arts of the
temporal, tradition and its disseminations, the archive and its
manifestations, the proximate body and its potentialities, the
political imagination in dance, contemporary dance, bodies, spaces
and audiences, bodily fluidity and dance as palimpsest in cinema,
and finally, the state and its policy interventions on behalf of
performance.
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