Shiva onstage
Subtitle: Uday Shankar's company of Hindu dancers and musicians in Europe and the United States, 1931-38
By: Diana Brenscheidt gen. Jost
Series: KlangKulturStudien -- Band 6; KlangKulturStudien -- Band 6.
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Zürich; Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9783643901088
Subjects: Dance companies; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-308).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Music and the musical instruments; title: 1.1 Music and its reception in Uday Shankar's early performances; title: 1.2 Counting and measuring. Shankar and German comparative musicology; title: 1.3 From "Hindu music" to "Indian music." British and British-Indian musicological writing from William Jones to Ananda K. Coomaraswamy; title: 1.3.1 The British orientalists: In search of classical origins; title: 1.3.2 S.M. Tagor: "Hindu Music" in the wake of British orientalism; title: 1.3.3 A.H. Fox Strangways: The music of Hindostan; title: 1.3.4 A.K. Cooraraswamy: "Indian music"; title: 1.4 "Then out came the musical instruments." The presentation of music in Uday Shankar's performances; title: 2. The unity of the arts; title: 2.1 Towards a re-unification of the arts: Uday Shankar's Indian dances in Germany; title: 2.2 Reviving ancient greek tragedy: Wagner, Nietzsche, and the modern dance scene; title: 2.2.1 Richard Wagner's concept of the united artwork; title: 2.2.2 Appropriations in the early modern dance scene; title: 2.2.3; title: Friedrich Nietsche: Dance and the dionysiac principle; title: 2.3 The dance-drama Tandava Nrittya: Indian Natya as a united artwork; title: 2.4 Uday Shankar, Modern Dance, and notions of primitivism; title: 3. Movement and the body; title: 3.1 Towards a definition of oriental dance; title: 3.1.1 Oriental dance: A western genre; title: 3.1.2 A new level of authenticity: Oriental dancers on western stages; title: 3.1.3 Andre Levinson: Dance movements east and west; title: 3.2 From oriental to asian dance; title: 3.2.1 The genre of asian dance: Levinson and others; title: 3.2.2 Uday Shankar: Presenting Indian dance movements in the west; title: 3.3 Pressing gender and racial boundaries: The male Indian dancer Uday Shankar; title: 4. Art, Religion and Mythology; title: 4.1 Filling the lack of religion: Mythology and the spiritual in western modern dance; title: 4.2 Dancing the divine: Shankar, Coomaraswamy, and Shiva as Nataraja; title: 4.2.1 "He dances and his dance becomes a prayer."Uday Shankar's religious dancing; title: 4.2.2 Shankar as Shiva; title: 4.3 Indian arts and aesthetics on the rise: The impact of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy; title: 4.3.1 From arts and crafts to fine arts in India; title: 4.3.2 "Oriental Dances in America"; title: 4.4 "Replete with an unknown beauty." The incomprehensibility of Indian dance and music; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography.