Dance, Technology and Social Justice

Individual and Collective Emancipation Through Embodied Techniques

Kaustavi Sarkar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

229 Seiten

2024
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7614-2 (ISBN)

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Theorizes dance technique as the Greek techne translated as art, and shows how movement can inspire epistemic, philosophical and cultural conversations in technology studies. Combining dance, religious and technology studies, the book argues that dance can be a technology of social justice bringing equanimity, liberation and resistance.

This book theorizes dance technique as the Greek techne translated as art, and shows how movement can inspire epistemic, philosophical, and cultural conversations in technology studies. Combining dance studies, religious studies, and technology studies, it argues that dance can be a technology of social justice bringing equanimity, liberation and resistance. It focuses on the eastern Indian art form Odissi and applied experimentations with motion capture technology, virtual reality (VR) gaming, and Arduino. It specifically examines tthe work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT), a Minnesota based contemporary Indian dance company that deconstructs Odissi towards social justice activism.

Kaustavi Sarkar is an assistant professor in the department of dance at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is an Odissi soloist and is the disciple of Guru Poushali Mukherjee, Guru Ratikant Mohapatra, and Guru Sujata Mohapatra. She has received two artworks grants from the National Endowment for the Arts among other state and regional grants and has published journal articles on practice-based research. She is the founder/ manager for the peer-reviewed journal South Asian Dance Intersections and convenor of the grant-funded Dance and Community Research Institute working on pedagogical, choreographic, and musicological interventions.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Resistance, Revolution, Rebellion by Douglas Rosenberg

Introduction

Chapter One. Dance Technique as Techne

Chapter Two. Immersing Within the Technological

Chapter Three. Dance as a Technology of Social Justice

Conclusion: Techno-Constitutions

Glossary

Chapter Notes

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2024
Zusatzinfo	10 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-4766-7614-3 / 1476676143
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7614-2 / 9781476676142
Zustand	Neuware