Flexible Bodies - British South Asian Dancers in an Age of Neoliberalism

Drawing on exclusive interviews, choreographic analysis, and the author's own dance experience, Flexible Bodies reveals how South Asian dancers in Britain use their craft and creativity to navigate often precarious economic, national, and racial terrain.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Innovation


• Chapter 2: Assimilation


• Chapter 3: Mobility


• Chapter 4: Risk


• Chapter 5: Value


• Epilogue

About the author

Anusha Kedhar is Associate Professor of Critical Dance Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her research examines Indian dance and dancers at the intersection of transnationalism, globalization, race, labor, migration, gender, and sexuality.

Summary

Drawing on exclusive interviews, choreographic analysis, and the author's own dance experience, Flexible Bodies reveals how South Asian dancers in Britain use their craft and creativity to navigate often precarious economic, national, and racial terrain.

Additional text

Flexible Bodies is the first monograph that skillfully and boldly examines the South Asian dance sector in the UK by centring the lives, labours, material conditions, artistries and hybrid postcolonialities of the dancers at the intersections of British multiculturalism and neoliberalism. Kedhar's dexterity to bring together complex ethnographic fieldwork, historiography, performance analysis and political economic analysis is commendable. Thoroughly researched, evocatively written and compellingly argued, the study signals the futures of dance studies as fundamentally interdisciplinary and places the racialisations of danced labour at its heart.

Product details

• Authors: Anusha Kedhar, Anusha (Associate Professor of Critical Da Kedhar
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.2020
• EAN: 9780190840143
• ISBN: 978-0-19-084014-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, MUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Choreography & Dance Notation, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Other performing arts, Asian History, Relating to British South Asian people, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Regional & Cultural