Bibliographies: 'Kathak (Dance) – India – History'

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Chakravorty, Pallabi. "Dancing into Modernity: Multiple Narratives of India's Kathak Dance." Dance Research Journal 38, no. 1-2 (2006): 115–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767700007415.

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Modernity, once a prerogative of the West, is now ubiquitous, experienced diversely by people all over the world. The changing notions of modernity are historically linked to the development of the public sphere. This article broadly attempts to map the discourse of modernity to the evolution of Kathak, a premier classical dance from India. The article has two threads running through it. One is the development of the public sphere in India as it relates to anti-colonial nationalism, the formation of the modern nation-state, and globalization. The other focuses on transformations in Kathak as they relate to changing patronage, ideology, and postcolonial history. I emphasize the latter to mark the transitions in Kathak as emblematic of Indian national identity and national ideology to a new era of cultural contestation. This emergent public domain of culture is coined as “public modernity” by anthropologist Arjun Appadurai in contemporary India. It is linked to economic reforms, or “liberalization,” leading to globalization and a resurgence of communal politics. Both of these make culture, tradition, and identity central to the contestation of power among the diverse social formations in India.

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Chakravorty, Pallabi. "Whose History? Kathak Dance and Its Practitioners." Dance Chronicle 38, no. 3 (2015): 410–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2015.1085244.

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Rajeev T, Anjana. "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam to Padmaavat: An Epitome on Traditional Indian Folk Dance in Sanjay LeelaBhansali’s Movies." Journal of Humanities,Music and Dance, no. 11 (August 17, 2021): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jhmd.11.1.12.

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India is a country with diverse culture. Indian folks reflect the way of life in India. Bollywood, the name for Indian films had marked its signature in music and dance with the influence of traditional Indian folk. It had begun in the 1940s with the song “Diwali Phir Aa Gayi Sajni” from Khajanchi (1941) and coloured by the later generation of directors. Sanjay Leela Bhansali is one of the grandiose filmmakers in Bollywood who had glorified Indian folk, culture and aesthetics on screen. This paper titled “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam to Padmaavat: An Epitome on Traditional Indian Folk Dance in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Movies” is a close study on the folkdances employed in Bhansali’s movies such as Gujarat’s Garba in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), Uttar Pradesh’s Kathak in Devdas (2002), Garba in Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ramleela (2013), Maharashtra’s Jugalbandi, Lavani, Kathak in Bajirao Mastani (2015), and Rajasthan’s Ghoomar and Kathak in Padmaavat (2018). Evaluating all these songs trace back its relation and devotion to North Indian cultures which marks the bond between people and the culture of our society.

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Rajeev T, Anjana. "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam to Padmaavat: An Epitome onTraditional Indian Folk Dance in Sanjay LeelaBhansali’s Movies." Journal of Humanities,Music and Dance, no. 11 (August 17, 2021): 9–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jhmd.11.9.21.

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India is a country with diverse culture. Indian folks reflect the way of life in India. Bollywood, the name for Indian films had marked its signature in music and dance with the influence of traditional Indian folk. It had begun in the 1940s with the song “Diwali Phir Aa Gayi Sajni” from Khajanchi (1941) and coloured by the later generation of directors. Sanjay Leela Bhansali is one of the grandiose filmmakers in Bollywood who had glorified Indian folk, culture and aesthetics on screen. This paper titled “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam to Padmaavat: An Epitome on Traditional Indian Folk Dance in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Movies” is a close study on the folkdances employed in Bhansali’s movies such as Gujarat’s Garba in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), Uttar Pradesh’s Kathak in Devdas (2002), Garba in Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ramleela (2013), Maharashtra’s Jugalbandi, Lavani, Kathak in Bajirao Mastani (2015), and Rajasthan’s Ghoomar and Kathak in Padmaavat (2018). Evaluating all these songs trace back its relation and devotion to North Indian cultures which marks the bond between people and the culture of our society.

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Harmalkar, Shashwati. "GRADUAL CHANGE IN LIGHTS, STAGE MANAGEMENT AND COSTUMES IN KATHAK DANCE." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 3, no. 1SE (2015): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v3.i1se.2015.3395.

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Kathak dance is a prominent classical dance of northern India. Indian dances have seen enormous changes in the past few years, but the fact that remains is not only has there been a change in the movements and “abhinay prakar” or expressions but also light and stage management and the costumes.Kathak performing artists or the “kathakkas” as they were called were actually story tellers and were earlier the messengers of the king. Gradually this art of storytelling changed its track to become India’s most performed classical dance.In 10th century this dance became a way of tribute to the almighty and was popularly performed by the devdasis in various temples. Though they were not openly performed for the devotees at first but only for the idols of the deity. Since the dance was performed in privacy, there was no need of stage and light. It was assumed that the dance was performed to depict ones bhakti or devotion towards the god and for the god’s entertainment hence costume and jewellery were given special weightage. Blunt colours like red or green in fully covered lehenga; choli and dupatta were selected with loads of gold jewellery of all kinds.

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Sarwal, Amit. "Louise Lightfoot and Ibetombi Devi: The Second Manipuri Dance Tour of Australia, 1957." Dance Research 32, no. 2 (2014): 208–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2014.0107.

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Manipur, a small state in the North-Eastern India, is traditionally regarded in the Indian classics and epics such as Ramayana and Mahabharata as the home of gandharvas (the celestial dancers). Manipuri is one of the eleven dance styles of India that have incorporated various techniques mentioned in such ancient treatises as the Natya Shastra and Bharatarnava and has been placed by Sangeet Natak Akademi within ‘a common heritage’ of Indian classical dance forms (shastriya nritya): Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi, Manipuri, Mohiniyattam, Odissi, Sattriya, Chhau, Gaudiya Nritya, and Thang Ta. In the late-1950s Louise Lightfoot, the ‘Australian mother of Kathakali,’ visited Manipur to study and research different styles of Manipuri dance. There she met Ibetombi Devi, the daughter of a Manipuri Princess; she had started dancing at the age of four and by the age of twelve, she had become the only female dancer to perform the Meitei Pung Cholom on stage––a form of dance traditionally performed by Manipuri men accompanied by the beating of the pung (drum). In 1957, at the age of 20, Ibetombi became the first Manipuri female dancer to travel to Australia. This paper addresses Ibetombi Devi's cross-cultural dance collaboration in Australia with her impresario, Louise Lightfoot, and the impression she and her co-dancer, Ananda Shivaram, made upon audiences.

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Walker, Margaret E. "Bells of Change: Kathak Dance, Women and Modernity in India by Pallabi Chakravorty, Kathaka: The Tradition: Fusion and Diffusion by Ranjana Srivastava Bells of Change: Kathak Dance, Women and Modernity in India Chakravorty Pallabi Seagull Books , Calcutta Kathaka: The Tradition: Fusion and Diffusion Srivastava Ranjana D. K. Printworld (P) Ltd. , New Delhi." Dance Research Journal 43, no. 1 (2011): 105–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/danceresearchj.43.1.0105.

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Singleton, Brian. "K. N. Panikkar's Teyyateyyam: Resisting Interculturalism Through Ritual Practice." Theatre Research International 22, no. 2 (1997): 162–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300020563.

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Indian theatre practice under British colonial rule was marked by differing strategies of resistance: agit-prop drama to promote social and political reform; the preservation of classical dance as cultural heritage; and the continuing practice of folk rituals in rural areas outwith the immediate control of the colonial authorities. Postindependence India, however, has witnessed those ‘deviant’ practices of resistance become the dominant ideological performance practices of modern India. Much actor training continued to be modelled on British drama schools such as RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art); classical dances have survived to incorporate certain aspects of western ballet (for example, group sequences in Kathak); and the folk rituals have come increasingly under the microscope of western cultural tourists. Indian theatre practice, therefore, succumbs to the power of the dollar, as western academics and practitioners, with their financial and technological power, act as legitimizing agents for the global recognition of Asian culture. We are at a time when great currency is being attached to the notion of intercultural rejuvenation of home cultures by acts of productive reception with foreign cultures (a more positive definition of the practice by Erika Fischer-Lichte in direct response to Edward Said's charge of cultural colonialism which he terms orientalism). It is worthwhile taking note of how certain forms of modern Indian theatre are resisting intercultural practices, not by refusal or direct opposition, but by theatrical acts of intra-cultural rejuvenation, without the injection of the foreign culture as a serum.

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Chakravorty, Pallabi. "Hegemony, dance and nation: The construction of the classical dance in India." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 21, no. 2 (1998): 107–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856409808723345.

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Vargas-Cetina, Gabriela. "India and the Translocal Modern Dance Scene, 1890s–1950s." Review of International American Studies 13, no. 2 (2020): 39–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rias.9805.

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At the end of the nineteenth century and during the first half of the twentieth, lead dancers from different countries became famous and toured internationally. These dancers—and the companies they created—transformed various dance forms into performances fit for the larger world of art music, ballet, and opera circuits. They adapted ballet to the variety-show formats and its audiences. Drawing on shared philosophical ideas—such as those manifest in the works of the Transcendentalists or in the writings of Nietzsche and Wagner—and from movement techniques, such as ballet codes, the Delsarte method, and, later on, Eurythmics (in fashion at the time), these lead dancers created new dance formats, choreographies, and styles, from which many of today’s classical, folk, and ballet schools emerged. In this essay, I look at how Rabindranath Tagore, Isadora Duncan, Anna Pavlova, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, Uday Shankar, Leila Roy Sokhey and Rumini Devi Arundale contributed to this translocal dance scene. Indian dance and spirituality, as well as famous Indian dancers, were an integral part of what at the time was known as the international modern dance scene. This transnational scene eventually coalesced into several separate schools, including what today is known as classical and modern Indian dance styles.

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