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Dancing Otherness: Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Work of Uday Shankar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2012

Prarthana Purkayastha
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Uday Shankar's career as a dancer and choreographer has been under frequent inspection by dance historians and scholars in both the South Asian and Euro-American worlds. To date, some articles, books, and biographies have documented various aspects Shankar's life, which provide factual details about his performance career (Banerji 1982; Khokar 1983; Mukhopadhyay 2004; Singha and Massey 1967). While these biographies serve as an important source in their delineation of Shankar's life and his works, there have been few attempts at critical analyses and evaluation of Shankar's body of choreographic works. Scant scholarly interests in Shankar have mostly described him as one of the many exotic “oriental” dancers in Europe.

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , Summer 2012 , pp. 69 - 92
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