Description
This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, first-hand accounts, and interviews, it explores unique folk dances of Indigenous communities of North East India that reflect diverse journeys, lifestyles, and connections within their ethnic groups, marking almost every ritual and festival. Dance for people of North East India, as elsewhere, is also a way of declaring, establishing, celebrating, and asserting humans' relationship with nature.
The book draws attention to the origins and special circumstances of dances from North East India. It discusses a range of important folk-dance forms alongside classical dance forms in North East India, with a focus on Sattriya dance. The chapters examine how these dance forms play an important role in the region’s socio-cultural, economic, and political life, intertwining religion and the arts through music, dance, and drama. Further, they also explore how folk dance cultures in North East India have never been relegated to the background, never considered secondary, aesthetically, or otherwise, but have become expressions of political and cultural identity.
An evocative work, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of pedagogy, choreography, community dance practice, theatre and performance studies, social and cultural studies, aesthetics, interdisciplinary arts, and more. It will be an invaluable resource for artists and practitioners working in dance schools and communities.
Table of Contents
Introduction
DEBARSHI PRASAD NATH AND BARBARA SNOOK
1. Glimpses of the dance world of North-East India
PARASMONI DUTTA
2. Sattriya dance: A narrative of its journey through the ages
PRADIP JYOTI MAHANTA
3. Moving objects and thinking body: A dancer’s narrative
ANWESA MAHANTA
4. Discovering Sannidhi/a confluence: A dance exchange between Assam and Aotearoa, New Zealand
ALISON (ALI) EAST
5. Kherai’s dance world: Promoting solidarity and tradition
MADHURIMA GOSWAMI
6. The dance and the dancers: Tradition and innovation within the indigenous performances of the ritual dance of the Hudum Deo
PREETINICHA BARMAN
7. Identity revivalism through folk dances amongst the tribal communities of Assam
MOUSUMI MAHANTA
8. Bihu performance of the Morans of Assam
PARASH JYOTI MORAN AND HASHIK N.K.
9. Social media and the politics of dance
JAYANTA VISHNU DAS
10. Gender and dance: “Gazing” at the Doudini and the female Sattriya and Bihuwoti dancers
MOUSHUMI KANDALI
11. Reflections on dance education workshops in Assam: Towards critical and creative thinking
BARBARA SNOOK
12. Echoing the rhythm: Voices of school dance teachers
JURI GOGOI KONWAR
13. Dancers’ voices
GAURAV RAJKHOWA
14. Dance through the performers’ lens
MANDAKINI BARUAH
15. Studio dance teachers’ journeys
MAYURI BORDOLOI
16. The performers of folk dances
MANDAKINI BARUAH
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