The Visual and Material Culture of Dance in South Asia

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Arts, “The Visual and Material Culture of Dance in South Asia”, explores the intersections of dance performance, aesthetics, and embodiment in the visual arts and material culture from medieval and early modern times to the present. We are interested in experiments and intersections across media from a thematical and formal perspective. How do images of dancing bodies (paintings, photographs, drawings, prints, sculpture), props, musical instruments, textiles, jewellery, set design, posters and programs, and video footage function to complicate movement and performance, choreography, pedagogy, and the perceptions and politics of positioning particular dance traditions? How does the flow of materials, technologies, and ideas shape South Asian diasporic identities? Essays that explore the ways that the circulation of visual and material culture have produced, reshaped, and resisted ideologies that center around beauty, class, cosmopolitanism, and freedom in South Asian and diasporic communities. For this Special Issue, projects may include scholarly essays as well as more creative modes of writing and presentation.

Dr. Pika Ghosh
Prof. Dr. Ajay J. Sinha
Guest Editors

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• media
• movement
• sound
• touch
• ephemerality
• embodiment
• phenomenology