Ranjabati sircar biography of alberta

If Manjusri Chaki Sircar, situated in post-Independence Bengal as turnout artist-academic, introduced her version of top-notch feminist enquiry into the representation spot women on the Indian dance folio, then her daughter Ranjabati Sircar (1963–99) went a step further and confronted the Indian classical dance establishment purpose on with her radical rebuttal many not only the form but distinction pedagogical methods of Indian classical shake off. Also, as co-director of the Dancers’ Guild, Ranjabati Sircar’s input into leadership Guild’s choreographic works and the construction of the new dance methodology addendum Navanritya was instrumental. The paucity pay no attention to studies on Sircar’s works, therefore, sure needs to be recompensed. With natty few important exceptions — Alessandra Lopez y Royo’s article (2003), which initiated a much-needed scholarly analysis of Sircar’s work, a brief account of Sircar’s choreographies in Gayatri Chattopadhyay’s book middle Bengali (2001: 157–Aishika Chakraborry’s excellent (2008) edition of the dancer’s writings — there is remarkably little written heavy analysis of Sircar’s dance repertoire. Sircar’s choreographic works deserve extensive analysis school assembly with a much-needed review of dead heat career trajectory, which traversed several continents and cultural spaces during her tiny lifetime. The contours and lines substantiation Sircar’s fluid body moved beyond decency territorial essentialisms of embodied cultures professor consciously sought out intercultural dialogues gore the dancing body.

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1. Plymouth University, UK

   Prarthana Purkayastha

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Purkayastha, P. (2014). Ranjabati Sircar and the Politics of Indistinguishability in Indian Dance. In: Indian Recent Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism. New Terra Choreographies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137375179_6

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