Subverting the Heroic through Humor: Dancing a Partition Narrative Vidushaka in Bharatanatyam
This article examines San Francisco-based Nava Dance Company's Broken Seeds Still Grow, a South Asian bharatanatyam production on "social" themes that highlights the traumas of the Partition of India and Pakistan with ongoing harms to immigrants in the United States. In utilizing the...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Concilium
Year: 2024, Issue: 5, Pages: 106-115 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Radcliffe, Cyril John Radcliffe 1899-1977
/ Britisch-Indien
/ Division
/ Geschichte 1947
/ Hero (Motif)
/ Clown (Motif)
/ Bharata natya
/ Performance of
/ Geschichte 2017
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion KBM Asia TK Recent history ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Dance
B Bharata Natyam |
| Summary: | This article examines San Francisco-based Nava Dance Company's Broken Seeds Still Grow, a South Asian bharatanatyam production on "social" themes that highlights the traumas of the Partition of India and Pakistan with ongoing harms to immigrants in the United States. In utilizing the contrasting aesthetic tropes of heroism (vira) and humor (hasya) during a dance sequence on Cyril Radcliffe, the British lawyer who spilt the subcontinent into two countries, the dancer's physical gestures common to this traditionally Hindu storytelling dance form are redirected to productively subvert the depiction of Radcliffe into a vidushaka, the fool/clown of Sanskrit theater. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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