Traversing tradition: celebrating dance in India/ Edited by Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Stephanie Burridge - London : Routledge, 2011. - xxvii,319p. : ill. ; 23cm. - Celebrating dance in Asia and the Pacific, 2. .

Dance scholarship and its future : the Indian context / Kapila Vatsyayan --
Institutionalization of classical dances of India : Kalakshetra, the principal case study / Sunil Kothari --
Questions for the modern dance teacher : child-parent responses to modern dance education / Ranjita Karlekar --
Writing out otherness : dancing Asian-Indian / Uttara Asha Coorlawala --
Why I am committed to a contemporary South Asian aesthetic : arguments about the value of "difference" from the perspective of practice? Ananya Chatterjea --
Reading dance, performing research : meaning, interpretation, context, and re-contextualization in dance performance and research / Shrinkhla Sahai --
Imag(in)ing the nation : Uday Shankar's Kalpana / Urmimala Sarkar Munsi --
In dialogue with histories : the dancer and the actress / Bishnupriya Dutt --
The beauty myth and beyond : looking at Bollywood "item number" / Priyanka Basu --
The altered space : community dances from everyday to the proscenium/ Debanjali Biswas and Anirban Ghosh --
Patronage, politics of culture and the dancing body of the other : a north-east Indian experience / Lokendra Arambam --
Empowering through dance movement therapy / Sohini Chakraborty --
Artists' voices and biographies --
Critics' voices and biographies.

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Dance -- India.
Modern dance -- India.
Folk dancing -- India.

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