Description
About the Author
Anusha Kedhar is Associate Professor of Critical Dance Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her research examines Indian dance and dancers at the intersection of transnationalism, globalization, race, labor, migration, gender, and sexuality.
Reviews
Vivid, engaging, and insightful, Flexible Bodies: British South Asian Dancers in an Age of Neoliberalism draws its readers into the working lives of dancers navigating Cool Britannia's transformation into the UK of post-7/7 and Brexit. Well-researched and deftly argued, Flexible Bodies makes a compelling case for understanding dance as an integral part of neoliberalism's demands for and restrictions on human movement. * Janet O'Shea, author of At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage (2007) *
Flexible Bodies is the first monograph that skillfully and boldly examines the South Asian dance sector in the UK by centring the lives, labours, material conditions, artistries and hybrid postcolonialities of the dancers at the intersections of British multiculturalism and neoliberalism. Kedhar's dexterity to bring together complex ethnographic fieldwork, historiography, performance analysis and political economic analysis is commendable. Thoroughly researched, evocatively written and compellingly argued, the study signals the futures of dance studies as fundamentally interdisciplinary and places the racialisations of danced labour at its heart. * Royona Mitra, author of Akram Khan: Dancing New Interculturalism (2015) *
Awards
Winner of Winner, 2022 Sally Banes Publication Prize by the American Society for Theatre Research Winner, Emory Elliott Book Award, Center for Ideas and Society.
Book Information
ISBN 9780190840143
Author Anusha Kedhar
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 386g
Dimensions(mm) 155mm * 231mm * 20mm