Characterizing South Indian Dance Traditions – Aparna Keshaviah – India 2006
As an independent Fulbright scholar in Dance, I spent a year traveling to more than 60 Bharatanatyam (south Indian classical dance) schools around Chennai, Bangalore, and Delhi. I interviewed more than 200 teachers and students about their practice of Bharatanatyam. That unprecedented study of how the dance form is being expressed differently in different cities, […]