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At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage (review)

At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage (review) AT HOME IN THE WORLD: BHARATA NATYAM ON THE GLOBAL STAGE. By Janet O' Shea, Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 2007. 240 pp. 21 illus. Paper $26.95; Cloth $70.00. Janet O'Shea's celebratory book on bharatanatyam, (bharata natyam in this book), the quintessential national and classical dance of India, describes the transition of the dance from its beginnings in the temples and courts of South India to a highly respected international dance practice, presented on global stages today. The book is important reading for dance scholars because it culls dance scholarship articulated in dance anthropology, area studies, subaltern studies, postcolonial studies, cultural, religious and performance studies since the 1980s. In addition, O'Shea provides a new conceptual perspective by situating the history and choreographic practice of bharatanatyam, within both an areas studies and transnational framework. She then proceeds to tell the story of the transnationalization of twentieth-century bharatanatyam within a local/global framework. To develop this transnational framework, O'Shea focuses on three dance pioneers of bharatanatyam: T. Balasaraswati, belonging herself to traditional devadasi temple traditions; Rukmini Devi, the first upper class Brahmin woman of international stature to learn the dance in the 1930s; and E. Krishna Iyer, an activist nationalist, who http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage (review)

Meduri, Avanthi.
Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 26 (2) – Feb 6, 2009
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AT HOME IN THE WORLD: BHARATA NATYAM ON THE GLOBAL STAGE. By Janet O' Shea, Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 2007. 240 pp. 21 illus. Paper $26.95; Cloth $70.00. Janet O'Shea's celebratory book on bharatanatyam, (bharata natyam in this book), the quintessential national and classical dance of India, describes the transition of the dance from its beginnings in the temples and courts of South India to a highly respected international dance practice, presented on global stages today. The book is important reading for dance scholars because it culls dance scholarship articulated in dance anthropology, area studies, subaltern studies, postcolonial studies, cultural, religious and performance studies since the 1980s. In addition, O'Shea provides a new conceptual perspective by situating the history and choreographic practice of bharatanatyam, within both an areas studies and transnational framework. She then proceeds to tell the story of the transnationalization of twentieth-century bharatanatyam within a local/global framework. To develop this transnational framework, O'Shea focuses on three dance pioneers of bharatanatyam: T. Balasaraswati, belonging herself to traditional devadasi temple traditions; Rukmini Devi, the first upper class Brahmin woman of international stature to learn the dance in the 1930s; and E. Krishna Iyer, an activist nationalist, who

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