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Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict

Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict PDF Author: Ahalya Satkunaratnam
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819578916
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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Winner of The de la Torre Bueno® First Book Award (2021) Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict is a groundbreaking ethnographic examination of dance practice in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during the civil war (1983–2009). It is the first book of scholarship on bharata natyam (a classical dance originating in India) in Sri Lanka, and the first on the role of this dance in the country's war. Focusing on women dancers, Ahalya Satkunaratnam shows how they navigated conditions of conflict and a neoliberal, global economy, resisted nationalism and militarism, and advocated for peace. Her interdisciplinary methodology combines historical analysis, methods of dance studies, and dance ethnography.