Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement v

Surveys the main features of contemporary Indian foreign policy.

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During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of cont

This book examines modern dance as a form of embodied resistance to political and cultural nationalism in India through the works of five selected modern dance