Is It All About Hips? by Sangita Shresthova
The first comprehensive book on Bollywood dance culture, Is It All About Hips? traces Bollywood dances as they are interpreted, created, and produced in three locations: Mumbai (India), Kathmandu (Nepal), and Los Angeles (USA). In this pioneering work, Sangita Shresthova brings alive the world of Bollywood dance through the chronicling and analyses of live performances, dance classes, film spectatorship, and personal narratives. Watch how dances travel and meanings unravel…The book, which zigzags through India, Nepal, the United States, is a fine blend of in depth research, humour, and astute cultural sensitivity…Is It All About Hips? has lot more to say.
-- The Sunday IndianSangita Shresthova’s book is a personalised ethnography of Bollywood dance, and the reader follows her as she follows the trail of "Bollynatyam" form one continent to the other. -- Nepali Times
The book has plenty of useful notes at the end, a list of films and a glossary and the index is useful, too. This was an interesting read, indeed an enjoyable journey through Bollywood dance.
-- South Asia ResearchHer artistic vision, sensitivity to her subjects, and her eye to story-tell tough real world issues through visual performance in superb. I believe her rather unusual Czech/Nepali cultural background allows her to traverse nuanced cultural issues.
-- Peter Sellars
Shresthova`s experiences as a dancer and choreographer allow her to observe and describe these performances with a nuanced attention to detail, while her theoretical sophistication gives us a larger framework for thinking about what live performance means in an increasingly global, but nevertheless always local, culture. -- Henry Jenkins
An exciting, sensitive, accessible journey through Bollywood dance. -- Mira Kaushik
Sangita Shresthova is currently the Research Director of the Media Activism and Participatory Politics Project (MAPP) at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. She is a dancer and media artist who holds a PhD from the Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA. She earned an MSc degree from MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program where she focused on Hindi film dance. Sangita’s work has been presented in academic and creative venues around the world including the Other Festival (Chennai), the EBS International Documentary Festival (Seoul), and the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC). Her writing has appeared in academic publications like Global Bollywood, an edited volume on Hindi cinema. Sangita was the Programming Director of the Prague Bollywood Festival, an annual event she helped found nine years ago. Sangita studied Bharata Natyam under Malathi Srinivasan in Chennai, as well as Charya Nritya (Nepalese Dance), Kalaripayat (South Indian martial arts), and contemporary dance techniques. She was a guest choreographer for the Constanza Macras/DorkyPark production “Big in Bombay.” Her documentary titled, “Dancing Kathmandu” (2007), was a curtain raiser at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival. Sangita continues to explore the possibilities of Indian dance, film, and new media through BollynatyamTM, the company she founded in 2004.
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| ISBN 13 | 9788132106852 |
| ISBN 10 | 8132106857 |
| Title | Is It All About Hips? |
| Author | Sangita Shresthova |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-08-22 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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