Louise Lightfoot In Search Of India

Author : Louise Lightfoot
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443892582

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Louise Lightfoot in Search of India by Louise Lightfoot Pdf

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
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000625509

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The Celestial Dancers by Amit Sarwal Pdf

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
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000761993

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The Dancing God by Amit Sarwal Pdf

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
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0913360066

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Dance in India by Judy Van Zile Pdf

Author : Louise Lightfoot
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443875820

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Labels and Locations by Louise Lightfoot Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Ballet
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021791962

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Dancing Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York Public Library. Dance Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Dance
ISBN : UOM:39015036784703

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Dictionary Catalog of the Dance Collection by New York Public Library. Dance Collection Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015796033

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Rhythm by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Dance
ISBN : MINN:31951002429762Y

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A Bibliography of Dancing; a List of Books and Articles on the Dance and Related Subjects by Anonim Pdf

Author : K. P. Padmanabhan Tampy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Dance
ISBN : MINN:319510017593687

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Kathakali by K. P. Padmanabhan Tampy Pdf

Describes the Indian classical dance kathakali.

Author : Genevieve M. Lackas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433012387621

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A selected list of articles on dance subjects from periodicals covering the period between 1937-1942 by Genevieve M. Lackas Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Asia
ISBN : UIUC:30112111267610

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Indian Horizons by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : WISC:89015222235

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National Union Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Author : Sunil Kothari
Publisher : Marg Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015042978661

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New Directions in Indian Dance by Sunil Kothari Pdf

Contains Contributions Of Dancers, Choreographers, Inn Ators, Scholars And Scholars Which Cover A Wide Range Of Topics Which Mirror The New Directions Indian Dance Is Taking. Explores The Tradition Of Abstraction, Martial Arts And Other Dance Traditions. Also Covers Issues Of Inter-Culturalism And Modernism. Generously Illustrated The Book Reveals The Mystique Of The New Indian Dance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015436889

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Guide to Dance Periodicals by Anonim Pdf