Flexible Bodies British South Asian Dancers in an Age of Neoliberalism
South Asian dance as its own distinctive genre.Analyzing dance works, dance films, rehearsals, and touring - alongside immigration policy, arts funding initiatives, and global economic conditions - Flexible Bodies traces shifts in British South Asian dance from 1990s "Cool Britannia"
multiculturalism to fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis and, more recently, the anti-immigration rhetoric leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016. Kedhar draws on over a decade of interviews and conversations with dancers in Britain as well as in-depth choreographic analysis of major
dance works to reveal the creative ways in which British South Asian dancers negotiate neoliberal, multicultural dance markets through an array of flexible bodily practices. Providing a new, critical dance studies lens through which to view the precarious economic, racial, national, and legal
positions of South Asians in Britain, Flexible Bodiesultimately argues for centering dance labor in studies of neoliberalism.
Publisher Name | Oxford University Press USA |
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Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
Format | Audio |
Bisac Subject Major | PER |
Language | NG |
Isbn 10 | 0190840145 |
Isbn 13 | 9780190840143 |
Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
Dimensions | 00.91" H x 00.06" L x 10.00" W |
Page Count | 272 |
Anusha Kedhar is Assistant 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.