Dance Like A Man

Author : Mahesh Dattani
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788184759754

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Dance Like a Man by Mahesh Dattani Pdf

Jairaj Parekh and his wife Ratna, aging Bharatnatyam dancers, are engaged in finding a substitute mridangam player to accompany their daughter Lata at her performance at a high-profile dance festival. Lata, in the meantime, nervously awaits the meeting between her parents and Viswas, the young man she wishes to marry. When the four meet, and in the conversations and discussions that follow, the fissures in the relationship between Jairaj and Ratna begin to explode into high-strung battles which lead back to their own youth and the tragedy that lies at the heart of their discord. The younger couple have their own issues to contend with: the obvious mismatch between the two sets of parents, the arguments over Lata’s career as a dancer after marriage and most unsettling of all, Lata’s attempt to balance her parents’ ambition with her own needs and desires. A brilliant study of human relationships and weaknesses framed by the age-old battle between tradition and youthful rebellion, Dance Like a Man has been hailed as one of the best works of the dramatic imagination in recent times.

Author : Mahesh Dattani
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789351182214

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Dance like a Man by Mahesh Dattani Pdf

‘A playwright of world stature’—Mario Relich, Wasafiri Framed by the age-old battle between traditional authority and youthful rebellion, Dance Like a Man pivots on the strained relationship between Jairaj Parekh and his wife Ratna, both ageing Bharatanatayam dancers. When their daughter arranges for them to meet the boy she wants to marry, the fissures in the elderly couple's relationship come to the fore. As old wounds are torn open again, both Jairaj and Ratna find that they must come to terms with their bitter past. The play was later adapted into a National Award-winning film. ‘At last we have a playwright who gives sixty million English-speaking Indians an identity’—Alyque Padamsee ‘Powerful and disturbing’—The New York Times

Author : Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri
Publisher : Foundation Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8175962607

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Mahesh Dattani by Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri Pdf

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner continues to provoke debate today regarding his political legacy as well as his music and aesthetic theories.Wagner and His Worldexamines his works in their intellectual and cultural contexts. Seven original essays investigate such topics as music drama in light of rituals of naming in the composer's works and the politics of genre; the role of leitmotif in Wagner's reception; the urge for extinction inTristan und Isoldeas psychology and symbol; Wagner as his own stage director; his conflicted relationship with pianist-composer Franz Liszt; the anti-French satireEine Kapitulationin the context of the Franco-Prussian War; and responses of Jewish writers and musicians to Wagner's anti-Semitism. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Karol Berger, Leon Botstein, Lydia Goehr, Kenneth Hamilton, Katherine Syer, and Christian Thorau. This book also includes translations of essays, reviews, and memoirs by champions and detractors of Wagner; glimpses into his domestic sphere in Tribschen and Bayreuth; and all of Wagner's program notes to his own works. Introductions and annotations are provided by the editor and David Breckbill, Mary A. Cicora, James Deaville, Annegret Fauser, Steven Huebner, David Trippett, and Nicholas Vazsonyi.

Author : Mahesh Dattani
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789351182160

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On a Muggy night in Mumbai by Mahesh Dattani Pdf

‘A playwright of world stature’—Mario Relich, Wasafiri On a Muggy Night in Mumbai is the first contemporary Indian play to openly tackle gay themes of love, partnership, trust and betrayal. Kamlesh—young, gay and clinically depressed—invites his friends home ostensibly for an evening of camaraderie. However, with the arrival of his sister and her fiancé, a series of dramatic confrontations is set into motion, leading to startling revelations and unexpected catharsis. ‘At last we have a playwright who gives sixty million English-speaking Indians an identity’—Alyque Padamsee ‘Powerful and disturbing’—The New York Times

Author : Mahesh Dattani
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788184752991

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BRIEF CANDLE by Mahesh Dattani Pdf

Brief Candle: Three Plays brings together the most recent work of Sahitya Akademi award-winner Mahesh Dattani as he continues to explore subjects that need to be addressed but are relentlessly brushed under the carpet of middle-class morality—incest; gender bias and death. The title play is set in a hospital ward where terminally ill patients put up an energetic farce in memory of their friend who died of cancer. The blurring of lines between their romp and the events of their own lives leads to revelations that are both tragic and life-affirming. In the radio play The Girl Who Touched the Stars; Bhavna—now an astronaut ready to take off on a mission into outer space—reflects on her past in this moment of glory; only to confront the bitter truths she has tried to ignore all her life. The fragile fabric of familial relations is ripped apart in Thirty Days in September when memories of a traumatic past return to haunt a mother and her daughter. Playful and poignant; devastating and redemptive; these critically acclaimed plays lay bare the far-reaching consequences of the choices we make; confirming Dattani as one of India’s foremost dramatists.

Author : Ankur Konar
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783668648562

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The different facets of dancing in "Dance Like a Man" by Mahesh Dattani by Ankur Konar Pdf

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject English - Literature, Works, University of Burdwan, language: English, abstract: Dattani’s drama "Dance Like a Man", first staged in 1989, dramatizes "dance" with its many implicit implications – dance as profession, dance as pain, dance as suffering, dance as shelter, dance as ego-formation, dance as rhythm of life, dance as passion, dance as mission, dance as vision and finally, dance as strong maker of gender identity; in addition, it is a reflector of the cultural location of India, more precisely, culturally rich Indianness. The play can be read as a configuration of the characteristic grip of human identity that strongly interfaces the elements of identical autonomy and autonomous identity.

Author : Maxine Leeds Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199845279

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Sorry I Don't Dance by Maxine Leeds Craig Pdf

Explores the feminization, sexualization, and racialization of dance in America since the 1960s.

Author : Mahesh Dattani
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789351182252

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Dance like a Man by Mahesh Dattani Pdf

‘A playwright of world stature’—Mario Relich, Wasafiri A screen adaptation of Mahesh Dattani's play of the same name, Dance Like a Man revolves around the strained relationship between Jairaj Parekh and his wife Ratna, both ageing Bharatanatayam dancers who are forced to confront long-buried conflicts from their past when their daughter persuades them to meet the boy she wishes to marry. The film, directed by Pamela Rooks, won the National Award for Best Feature Film in English in 2004. ‘At last we have a playwright who gives sixty million English-speaking Indians an identity’—Alyque Padamsee ‘Powerful and disturbing’—The New York Times

Author : Clive Barker,Simon Trussler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521002842

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New Theatre Quarterly 68: Volume 17, Part 4 by Clive Barker,Simon Trussler Pdf

Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.

Author : Andrew Holleran
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063299498

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Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran Pdf

“An astonishingly beautiful book. The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation.”—Harper’s “Through the sweat and haze of longing come piercing insights – about the closeness of gay male friendship, about the vanity and imperfections of men. The more one reads the novel, we realise that what Holleran has given us is our very own queer (queerer?) Great Gatsby: its decadence, its fear, its violence, its ecstasy, its transience.”—The Guardian Andrew Holleran’s landmark novel of a young man's search for love and companionship in New York’s emerging gay world in the 1970s, with a new introduction by Garth Greenwell. Young, astonishingly beautiful, and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight small-town lawyer for the decadence of New York’s emerging gay scene—an odyssey that takes him from Manhattan’s Everard baths and after hour discos, to lavish orgies on Fire Island and parks after dark. Rescuing Malone from a possessive lover and shepherding him through his immersion in this life of fierce joys and cheap truths is the flamboyant Sutherland, a high-camp quintessential queen. But for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days are close to burning out, and despite Sutherland’s abundant attentiveness and glittering world-weary wisdom, Malone soon realizes what he is truly looking for may not be found in these beautiful places, where life is crowded, and people are forever outrunning their own desires and death.

Author : Mahesh Dattani
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8175300035

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Tara by Mahesh Dattani Pdf

Author : Kelly Conaboy
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781538717851

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The Particulars of Peter by Kelly Conaboy Pdf

"This might be one of the month’s, if not the year’s, sweetest books — zaniest, too.” ―The Washington Post "A hilarious addition to the dogoir canon.” ―People "Perhaps the greatest love story ever told.” ―Refinery29 "The feel-good book the world needs." —PopSugar From one of the Internet's most original voices, a hilarious journey through the odd corners of obsessive dog ownership and the author's own infatuation with her perfect dog Peter. The author met Peter in the spring of 2017. He -- calm, puppy-eyed, with the heart of a poet and the soul of, also, a poet -- came to her first as a foster. He was unable to stay with his previously assigned foster for reasons that are none of your business, but which we will tell you were related to frequent urination. The rescue needed someone free of the sort of responsibilities that would force her to regularly leave the house for either work or socializing, and a writer was the natural choice. Thus began a love story for the ages. The Particulars of Peter is a funny exploration of the joy found in loving a dog so much it makes you feel like you're going to combust, and the author's potentially codependent relationship with her own sweet dog, Peter. Readers will follow Peter and his owner to Woofstock, "the largest outdoor festival for dogs in North America," and accompany them to lessons in Canine Freestyle, a sport where dogs perform a routine set to music, creating the illusion that they're dancing with their owners. From learning about Peter's DNA, to seeing if dogs can sense the presence of ghosts, The Particulars of Peter will give readers a smart, entertaining respite from the harsh world of humans into the funny little world of dogs. Readers will accompany this lovable duo through exciting trips, lessons, quiet moments of connection, and probably a failure or two. By fusing memoir and infotainment, The Particulars of Peter promises to refresh the perennially popular dog lit category in a scrumptiously bighearted barnstormer of a book.

Author : Mahesh Dattani
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789351181538

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Collected Plays by Mahesh Dattani Pdf

Mahesh Dattani is the first Indian-playwright writing in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi award. His plays bring Indian drama into the present day in their themes "sexuality, religious tension and gender issues" while still focussing on human relationships and personal and moral choices which are the classic concerns of world drama.

Author : Kristy Dempsey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698152915

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A Dance Like Starlight by Kristy Dempsey Pdf

A story of little ballerinas with big dreams. Little ballerinas have big dreams. Dreams of pirouettes and grande jetes, dreams of attending the best ballet schools and of dancing starring roles on stage. But in Harlem in the 1950s, dreams don’t always come true—they take a lot of work and a lot of hope. And sometimes hope is hard to come by. But the first African-American prima ballerina, Janet Collins, did make her dreams come true. And those dreams inspired ballerinas everywhere, showing them that the color of their skin couldn’t stop them from becoming a star. In a lyrical tale as beautiful as a dance en pointe, Kristy Dempsey and Floyd Cooper tell the story of one little ballerina who was inspired by Janet Collins to make her own dreams come true.

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486110912

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The Adventure of the Dancing Men and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Title story plus three others featuring the peerless sleuth and his faithful sidekick: "The Adventure of the Dying Detective," "The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans."