Download e-book for iPad: Dancing Bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam by Katherine C. Zubko

By Katherine C. Zubko

Dancing our bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam examines how Bharata Natyam, a historically Hindu storytelling dance shape, strikes throughout non secular limitations via either incorporating choreography on Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, and Jain issues and the pluralistic identities of members. Dancers traverse non secular limitations by way of reformulating a cultured starting place in response to performative instead of completely textual understandings of rasa, conventionally outlined as a formulation for a way to bodily craft emotion on degree. throughout the ethnographic case stories of this quantity, dancers of Bharata Natyam innovatively display how the rasa of devotion (bhakti rasa), strangely absent from vintage dance-related texts, serves because the pivotal framework for increasing all alone interreligious thematic and interpretive percentages. In modern Bharata Natyam, bhakti rasa isn't just approximately improving spiritual adventure; as an alternative, those dancers choreographically adapt a number of non secular identities and concepts so that it will emphasize pluralistic cultural and moral dimensions of their paintings. during the dancing physique, a number of non secular and secular interpretations fluidly co-exist.

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