Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema,
an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural
forms - cinema and dance - historicizes and theorizes the material
and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of
popular Hindi cinema. It explores how the dynamic figurations of
the body wrought by cinematic dance forms from the 1930s to the
1990s produce unique constructions of gender, sexuality, stardom,
and spectacle. By charting discursive shifts through figurations of
dancer-actresses, their publicly performed movements, private
training, and the cinematic and extra-diegetic narratives woven
around their dancing bodies, the book considers the "women's
question" via new mobilities corpo-realized by dancing women. Some
of the central figures animating this corporeal history are Azurie,
Sadhona Bose, Vyjayanthimala, Helen, Waheeda Rehman, Madhuri Dixit,
and Saroj Khan, whose performance histories fold and intersect with
those of other dancing women, including devadasis and tawaifs,
Eurasian actresses, oriental dancers, vamps, choreographers, and
backup dancers. Through a material history of the labor of
producing on-screen dance, theoretical frameworks that emphasize
collaboration, such as the "choreomusicking body" and "dance
musicalization," aesthetic approaches to embodiment drawing on
treatises like the Natya Sastra and the Abhinaya Darpana, and
formal analyses of cine-choreographic "techno-spectacles," Dancing
Women offers a variegated, textured history of cinema, dance, and
music. Tracing the gestural genealogies of film dance produces a
very different narrative of Bombay cinema, and indeed of South
Asian cultural modernities, by way of a corporeal history
co-choreographed by a network of remarkable dancing women.
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