A Guru's Journey: Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora - Couverture rigide

Morelli, Sarah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252042867 ISBN 13 : 9780252042867

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2019

Synopsis

An important modern exponent of Asian dance, Pandit Chitresh Das brought kathak to the United States in 1970. The North Indian classical dance has since become an important art form within the greater Indian diaspora. Yet its adoption outside of India raises questions about what happens to artistic practices when we separate them from their broader cultural contexts.

A Guru's Journey provides an ethnographic study of the dance form in the San Francisco Bay Area community formed by Das. Sarah Morelli, a kathak dancer and one of Das's former students, investigates issues in teaching, learning, and performance that developed around Das during his time in the United States. In modifying kathak's form and teaching for Western students, Das negotiates questions of Indianness and non-Indianness, gender, identity, and race. Morelli lays out these issues for readers with the goal of deepening their knowledge of kathak aesthetics, technique, and theory. She also shares the intricacies of footwork, facial expression in storytelling, and other aspects of kathak while tying them to the cultural issues that inform the dance.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Morelli is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Denver and a performing kathak artist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252042867
• ISBN 13: 9780252042867
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 270
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• Personne responsable: non disponible