Avanthi Meduri
Biographic Data
| ID | 214551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avanthi Meduri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avanthi |
| FAMILY NAME | Meduri |
| SIGNATURE | MEDURI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Performance Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
British Multiculturalism and Interweaving Hybridities in South Asian Dance
British South Asian dancers, choreographers, curators, Arts Council policymakers, and directors of South Asian dance agencies, used ‘hybridity’ as a multi-faceted historical, political, cultural, aesthetic and public culture trope to constitute what is today known as the British South Asian Dance Sector in the UK. This constitution story, initiated under the ideological signs of British multi-culturalism, hybridity and cultural diversity, remains…
Knowing the Dancer
The clean and the proper (in the sense of incorporated and incorporable) becomes filthy, the sought-after turns into the banished, fascination into shame.—Julia Kristeva, The Powers of Horror T HE HISTORY WE ARE SKETCHING is one of boundaries double crossed between India and the West and between periods of the South Asian past. On one level our story is about an historical irony, how late nineteenth-century Orientalism resuscitated the romantic m…
Bharatanatyam as a Global Dance
The promise of critical liberation that postcolonial and transnational perspectives offer by urging us to think the complex imbrication of the global in the local remains an unfulfilled promise in South Asian dance scholarship. I will elaborate this point by describing the global thrust of Rukmini Devi's art and education movement, which could not be recuperated within the territorializing intellectual framework of Indian nationalism, and explain…
Tamil Literature in Performance
Saskia Kersenboom. Word Sound Image: The Life of the Tamil Text. Washington, DC: Oxford University Press, 1995. 259 pp
Western feminist theory, Asian Indian performance, and a notion of agency
(1992). Western feminist theory, Asian Indian performance, and a notion of agency. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 90-103
An interview with Gayatri Spivak
(1990). An interview with Gayatri Spivak. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 80-92
More Aftermath after Peter Brook
Bharatha Natyam-What Are You
Let me tell you a story. I grew up in the cultural city of Madras, where I learned bharatha natyam, a form of South Indian classical dance, from a very young age. My dance teachers told me a story, a story they were never tired of repeating. They told me that bharatha natyam traces its origins to the Natyashastra, a detailed, ancient text on dramaturgy authored by the sage Bharatha (Bharatha-Muni), ca. 300 B.C. Sitting at their feet, I listened i…
Bharatanatyam as a Global Dance
The promise of critical liberation that postcolonial and transnational perspectives offer by urging us to think the complex imbrication of the global in the local remains an unfulfilled promise in South Asian dance scholarship. I will elaborate this point by describing the global thrust of Rukmini Devi's art and education movement, which could not be recuperated within the territorializing intellectual framework of Indian nationalism, and explain…
Knowing the Dancer
The clean and the proper (in the sense of incorporated and incorporable) becomes filthy, the sought-after turns into the banished, fascination into shame.—Julia Kristeva, The Powers of Horror T HE HISTORY WE ARE SKETCHING is one of boundaries double crossed between India and the West and between periods of the South Asian past. On one level our story is about an historical irony, how late nineteenth-century Orientalism resuscitated the romantic m…
An interview with Gayatri Spivak
(1990). An interview with Gayatri Spivak. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 80-92
Western feminist theory, Asian Indian performance, and a notion of agency
(1992). Western feminist theory, Asian Indian performance, and a notion of agency. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 90-103
More Aftermath after Peter Brook
Bharatha Natyam-What Are You
Let me tell you a story. I grew up in the cultural city of Madras, where I learned bharatha natyam, a form of South Indian classical dance, from a very young age. My dance teachers told me a story, a story they were never tired of repeating. They told me that bharatha natyam traces its origins to the Natyashastra, a detailed, ancient text on dramaturgy authored by the sage Bharatha (Bharatha-Muni), ca. 300 B.C. Sitting at their feet, I listened i…
An interview with Gayatri Spivak
(1990). An interview with Gayatri Spivak. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 80-92
Western feminist theory, Asian Indian performance, and a notion of agency
(1992). Western feminist theory, Asian Indian performance, and a notion of agency. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 90-103
Tamil Literature in Performance
Saskia Kersenboom. Word Sound Image: The Life of the Tamil Text. Washington, DC: Oxford University Press, 1995. 259 pp
Knowing the Dancer
The clean and the proper (in the sense of incorporated and incorporable) becomes filthy, the sought-after turns into the banished, fascination into shame.—Julia Kristeva, The Powers of Horror T HE HISTORY WE ARE SKETCHING is one of boundaries double crossed between India and the West and between periods of the South Asian past. On one level our story is about an historical irony, how late nineteenth-century Orientalism resuscitated the romantic m…
Bharatanatyam as a Global Dance
The promise of critical liberation that postcolonial and transnational perspectives offer by urging us to think the complex imbrication of the global in the local remains an unfulfilled promise in South Asian dance scholarship. I will elaborate this point by describing the global thrust of Rukmini Devi's art and education movement, which could not be recuperated within the territorializing intellectual framework of Indian nationalism, and explain…
British Multiculturalism and Interweaving Hybridities in South Asian Dance
British South Asian dancers, choreographers, curators, Arts Council policymakers, and directors of South Asian dance agencies, used ‘hybridity’ as a multi-faceted historical, political, cultural, aesthetic and public culture trope to constitute what is today known as the British South Asian Dance Sector in the UK. This constitution story, initiated under the ideological signs of British multi-culturalism, hybridity and cultural diversity, remains…
Diversity and Impact of Dance (5 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Scholarship (3 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 works)