Louise Lightfoot In Search Of India

Author : Louise Lightfoot
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443892580
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louise Lightfoot in Search of India written by Louise Lightfoot and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, Indian dance in Australia is represented by professional dance artists, companies, schools, and amateur community groups. They have, over the years, performed both traditional classical works as well as Bollywood pieces, and participated in various dance and cultural festivals organised throughout Australia. Louise Lightfoot, an Australian architect turned ballet teacher, is credited with successfully promoting a range of Indian classical dance forms. Lightfoot as a dedicated impresario for Ananda Shivaram, Rajkumar Priyagopal Singh, and Ibetombi Devi, urged Australian audiences not to see Indian dance as just an ancient, mysterious, and spiritual art form, but try to truly understand the value of this complex art of Indian dance and culture in order to strengthen cultural bonds. This book brings together Lightfoot’s thirty-three essays, reflecting her broader worldview as a dancer, choreographer, and impresario. Louise’s essays segue into each other and echo her various encounters with India and its diverse cultural conditions, beliefs and philosophies.

Author : Amit Sarwal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000625508
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Celestial Dancers written by Amit Sarwal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularization of Manipur’s Hindu dances in Australia. Tradition has it that the people of Manipur, a northeastern state of India, are descended from the celestial gandharvas, dance and music blessed among them as a God’s gift. The intricately symbolic Hindu dances of Manipur in their original religious forms were virtually unseen and unknown outside India until an Australian impresario, Louise Lightfoot, brought them to the stage in the 1950s. Her experimental changes through a pioneering collaboration with dancers Rajkumar Priyagopal Singh and Ibetombi Devi modernized Manipuri dance for presentation on a global stage. This partnership moved Manipur’s Hindu dances from the sphere of ritualistic temple practice to a formalized stage art abroad. Amit Sarwal chronicles how this movement, as in the case of other prominent Indian classical dances and dancers, enabled both Manipuri dance and dancers to gain recognition worldwide. This book is ideal for anyone with an interest in Hindu temple dance, Manipur dance, cross-cultural collaborations and the globalizing of Indian Classical Dance. The Celestial Dancers is a comprehensive study of how an exceptional Hindu dance form developed on the global stage.

Author : Amit Sarwal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000761991
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dancing God written by Amit Sarwal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 modernised Kathakali dance through her pioneering collaboration with Indian dancer Ananda Shivaram, moved the Hindu dance from the sphere of ritualistic practice to formalised 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.

Author : Judy Van Zile
Publisher : Theodore Front Music
ISBN 13 : 9780913360064
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance in India written by Judy Van Zile and published by Theodore Front Music. This book was released on 1973 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louise Lightfoot
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443875821
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labels and Locations written by Louise Lightfoot and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some happy occasions, like the 1995 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book to Bangladeshi-Australian author Adib Khan, the 2008 Man Booker Prize to Indian born Australian writer Arvinda Adiga, and the 2013 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction to Sri Lankan-Australian author Michele de Krester, have boosted the self-confidence of South Asian-Australian writers in Australia. South Asian diasporic communities have also been the focus for relatively small, but constantly growing, studies by anthropologists and sociologists on the interrelation of gender, race, ethnicity and migration in Australia. The terms Labels and Locations capture numerous aspects that contribute in the making of a diasporic consciousness. This book critically examines the issues of identity, gender, family, class and caste, expressed in the short narratives of South Asian diaspora writers based in Australia. Taking an interdisciplinary approach – from literary, cultural, historical, anthropological, and sociological studies – this book engages chiefly with the oeuvre of postcolonial writers and academics, namely: Mena Abdullah, Adib Khan, Yasmine Gooneratne, Michelle De Kretser, Chandani Lokugé, Chitra Fernando, Satendra Nandan, Suneeta Peres da Costa, Hanifa Deen, Christopher Cyrill, Suvendrini Perera, Sunil Govinnage, Brij V. Lal, Sunil Badami, Glenn D’Cruz, Chris Raja, Manik Datar, David De Vos, Rashmere Bhatti, Kirpal Singh Chauli, Sujhatha Fernandes, Neelam Maharaj, Sushie Narayan, Madu Pasipanodya, Shrishti Sharma, Beryl T. Mitchell, and Sunitha. This book will, by calling upon the works of this much-neglected South Asian diaspora group, fill a lacuna in the broader critical rubric of diaspora studies.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York Public Library. Dance Collection
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Dance Collection written by New York Public Library. Dance Collection and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhythm written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 118 pages
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Download or read book A Bibliography of Dancing; a List of Books and Articles on the Dance and Related Subjects written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Dancing. Cumulative Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: