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The dancing god : staging Hindu dance in Australia

Title
The dancing god : staging Hindu dance in Australia / Amit Sarwal.
Author
Sarwal, Amit
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Description
xvi, 149 pages : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm
Summary
"The Dancing God: Staging Hindu Dance in Australia charts the sensational and historic journey of de-provincialising and popularising Hindu dance in Australia. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, colonialism, orientalism and nationalism came together in various combinations to make traditional Hindu temple dance into a global art form. The intricately symbolic Hindu dance in its vital form was virtually unseen and unknown in Australia until an Australian impresario, Louise Lightfoot, brought it onto the stage. Her experimental changes, which modernized Kathakali dance through her pioneering collaboration with Indian dancer Ananda Shivaram, moved the Hindu dance from the sphere of ritualistic practice to formalized stage art. Amit Sarwal argues that this movement enabled both the authentic Hindu dance and dancer to gain recognition worldwide and created in his persona a cultural guru and ambassador on the global stage. Ideal for anyone with an interest in global dance, The Dancing God is an in-depth study of how a unique dance form evolved in the meeting of travellers and cultures"--
Alternative Title
Staging Hindu dance in Australia
Subject
  • Lightfoot, Louise
  • Dance and transnationalism > Australia
  • Dance > Religious aspects > Hinduism
  • Dance > Australia
  • Kathakali > Australia
  • Hinduism > Australia
  • Kathakali
  • Hinduism
  • Dance
  • Dance and transnationalism
  • Australia
Note
  • "Routledge Focus"--Front cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [129]-142) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The beginnings -- Hindu, Hinduism and Hindutva -- The Hindu dance -- The Australian mother of Kathakali -- The dancing god -- Conclusion: Temple dreaming.
Call Number
*MGS (Hindu) 20-2519
ISBN
  • 9780367266004
  • 0367266008
  • 9780429294112 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781000761993 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781000761672 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781000761832 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2019038834
  • 40029765168
OCLC
1117315202
Author
Sarwal, Amit, author.
Title
The dancing god : staging Hindu dance in Australia / Amit Sarwal.
Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [129]-142) and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Sarwal, Amit, The dancing god 1. New York : Routledge, 2019. 9780429294112 (DLC) 2019038835
Other Standard Identifier
40029765168
Research Call Number
*MGS (Hindu) 20-2519
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