Dance, Technology and Social Justice

Individual and Collective Emancipation Through Embodied Techniques

Kaustavi Sarkar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

277 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 discipline 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 for her creative praxis. Her writing on practice-based research has been published in journal articles in Research in Dance Education, Journal of Dance Education, Choreographic Practices, Performance Research, Dance Education in Practice and South Asian Dance Intersections.

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
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
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