TY - BOOK AU - Munsi, Urmimala Sarkar, ed. AU - Burridge, Stephanie ed. TI - Traversing tradition: celebrating dance in India SN - 9780415617093 U1 - 792.854 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Dance -- India. KW - Modern dance -- India KW - Folk dancing -- India N1 - 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 ER -