by Admin | Oct 26, 2013 | Vol 5 No 2
Proggya Ghatak, National Institute of Social Work and Social Science, Bhubaneswar Download PDF Version Abstract The paper discusses religious narratives about annual deity of Savara of South Bengal that can be conceptualized as myths, legends, and memories according...
by Admin | Oct 26, 2013 | Vol 5 No 2
Romi Grossberg, Independent Researcher and Performance Activist , Australia Download PDF Version Abstract Local non-government organisation ‘Tiny Toones’ is the first and only of its kind in Cambodia, to use hip hop to engage with, and empower the most disadvantaged...
by Admin | Oct 26, 2013 | Vol 5 No 2
Shramana Das Purkayasth, Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College, Kolkata, India Download PDF Version Abstract Indian cultural history testifies to the intimate bond the tawaifs had for centuries with the performing arts. Be it the pre-Mughal folk culture of rural India or the...
by Admin | Oct 26, 2013 | Vol 5 No 2
Indranil Acharya, Indranil Acharya, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India Download PDF Version The Argument In an article titled “A Crisis of Culture” published in The Hindu (May 07, 2006), T. M. Krishna observes: We are in a modern world, don’t we need to...
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Shreelina Ghosh, Dakota State University Download PDF Version Abstract Recent innovations in remediating performances allow dancers to perform, collaborate, teach, learn and forge new inter-body relationships that substitute the traditional Guru-Shishya or...
by Admin | Oct 26, 2013 | Vol 5 No 2
Dan W. Lawrence, Michigan Technological University Download PDF Version Abstract In this article, I write along with key 20th century thinkers—Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jacques Derrida—to understand how a phenomenological examination of the performance of music can...
