Ananya Chatterjea
Biographic Data
| ID | 1695803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ananya Chatterjea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ananya |
| FAMILY NAME | Chatterjea |
| SIGNATURE | CHATTERJEA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On the Value of Mistranslations and Contaminations: The Category of “Contemporary Choreography” in Asian Dance
This article works through ideas of bad/mis-translation in order to explore some of the cultural politics that undergird the construction of the global stage with specific reference to the idea of contemporary choreography in Asian dance. Bound by contesting flows toward heterogeneity and homogeneity, the global stage begs questions about the categories that pose as neutral signifiers—categories that are deployed in organizing “global” programmin…
Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance
In search of the choreographies of daily life and struggle
This essay is a reflection on the questions that have arisen during and consequently complicated the creative process as I have worked to infuse my choreographic work with social justice. Some questions have come from the troubling association of dance with entertainment only, ultimately broadening out to further questions about the function and possibilities of dance. Others have come from charges by activists that dance does not ultimately ‘del…
Butting out: Reading Resistive Choreographies through Works by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
In Search of a Secular in Contemporary Indian Dance: A Continuing Journey
This essay is the result of a long and tortured preoccupation stemming from my personal history of growing up in Kolkata, India, with a strong tradition of leftist cultural forums; the current escalation of religious fundamentalisms globally; and my questions about the signifying potential of performing bodies in this context. While I have tried to untangle and understand the complicated issues in this search for the secular dancing body in the c…
Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play
In constructing a comprehensive study of this dance-drama form from Kerala, South India, based more or less on mythological and epical stories, Phillip Zarrilli locates his Kathakali Dance-Drama at the intersection of ethnographic and performance research, oral history, textual analysis, performance documentation, and post-structural analysis. His commitment is to elucidating the unique process whereby a literary text enters the realm of Kathakal…
Subversive Dancing: The Interventions in Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's Batty Moves
This essay analyzes the movement vocabulary and choreographic structure of Batty Moves, a piece created by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and performed by her company, Urban Bush Women, in order to suggest how the dancing bodies here comment on history and rewrite current cultural stereotypes. It focuses specifically on how the dancers, manipulating typical movement phrases from ballet, modern dance, and African-based movement, negotiate an aesthetic-cul…
Dancing Sita/reinventing a body disappeared: Notes from fromSita: Lament, fury, and a plea for peace
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's Womb Wars: Embodying Her Critical Response to Abortion Politics
On a table placed in the center of the stage squats a woman dressed in a rust-colored dress. The focus of the lighting on her, which keeps the rest of the performance space darkened, underscores her presence in isolation. Her arms are stretched out in front, parallel to each other, reaching to no one. The palms are rigid, the separated fingers are taut with tension. Her voice reaches out in a deep undertone, the mouth opens wide to enunciate each…
On the Value of Mistranslations and Contaminations: The Category of “Contemporary Choreography” in Asian Dance
This article works through ideas of bad/mis-translation in order to explore some of the cultural politics that undergird the construction of the global stage with specific reference to the idea of contemporary choreography in Asian dance. Bound by contesting flows toward heterogeneity and homogeneity, the global stage begs questions about the categories that pose as neutral signifiers—categories that are deployed in organizing “global” programmin…
In search of the choreographies of daily life and struggle
This essay is a reflection on the questions that have arisen during and consequently complicated the creative process as I have worked to infuse my choreographic work with social justice. Some questions have come from the troubling association of dance with entertainment only, ultimately broadening out to further questions about the function and possibilities of dance. Others have come from charges by activists that dance does not ultimately ‘del…
In Search of a Secular in Contemporary Indian Dance: A Continuing Journey
This essay is the result of a long and tortured preoccupation stemming from my personal history of growing up in Kolkata, India, with a strong tradition of leftist cultural forums; the current escalation of religious fundamentalisms globally; and my questions about the signifying potential of performing bodies in this context. While I have tried to untangle and understand the complicated issues in this search for the secular dancing body in the c…
Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play
In constructing a comprehensive study of this dance-drama form from Kerala, South India, based more or less on mythological and epical stories, Phillip Zarrilli locates his Kathakali Dance-Drama at the intersection of ethnographic and performance research, oral history, textual analysis, performance documentation, and post-structural analysis. His commitment is to elucidating the unique process whereby a literary text enters the realm of Kathakal…
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's Womb Wars: Embodying Her Critical Response to Abortion Politics
On a table placed in the center of the stage squats a woman dressed in a rust-colored dress. The focus of the lighting on her, which keeps the rest of the performance space darkened, underscores her presence in isolation. Her arms are stretched out in front, parallel to each other, reaching to no one. The palms are rigid, the separated fingers are taut with tension. Her voice reaches out in a deep undertone, the mouth opens wide to enunciate each…
Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play
In constructing a comprehensive study of this dance-drama form from Kerala, South India, based more or less on mythological and epical stories, Phillip Zarrilli locates his Kathakali Dance-Drama at the intersection of ethnographic and performance research, oral history, textual analysis, performance documentation, and post-structural analysis. His commitment is to elucidating the unique process whereby a literary text enters the realm of Kathakal…
Subversive Dancing: The Interventions in Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's Batty Moves
This essay analyzes the movement vocabulary and choreographic structure of Batty Moves, a piece created by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and performed by her company, Urban Bush Women, in order to suggest how the dancing bodies here comment on history and rewrite current cultural stereotypes. It focuses specifically on how the dancers, manipulating typical movement phrases from ballet, modern dance, and African-based movement, negotiate an aesthetic-cul…
Dancing Sita/reinventing a body disappeared: Notes from fromSita: Lament, fury, and a plea for peace
In Search of a Secular in Contemporary Indian Dance: A Continuing Journey
This essay is the result of a long and tortured preoccupation stemming from my personal history of growing up in Kolkata, India, with a strong tradition of leftist cultural forums; the current escalation of religious fundamentalisms globally; and my questions about the signifying potential of performing bodies in this context. While I have tried to untangle and understand the complicated issues in this search for the secular dancing body in the c…
Butting out: Reading Resistive Choreographies through Works by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
In search of the choreographies of daily life and struggle
This essay is a reflection on the questions that have arisen during and consequently complicated the creative process as I have worked to infuse my choreographic work with social justice. Some questions have come from the troubling association of dance with entertainment only, ultimately broadening out to further questions about the function and possibilities of dance. Others have come from charges by activists that dance does not ultimately ‘del…
Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance
On the Value of Mistranslations and Contaminations: The Category of “Contemporary Choreography” in Asian Dance
This article works through ideas of bad/mis-translation in order to explore some of the cultural politics that undergird the construction of the global stage with specific reference to the idea of contemporary choreography in Asian dance. Bound by contesting flows toward heterogeneity and homogeneity, the global stage begs questions about the categories that pose as neutral signifiers—categories that are deployed in organizing “global” programmin…
Art (9 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Dance (6 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (4 works)