In Satkunaratnam’s often intimate and poetic micro-analyses, we encounter women dance artists and a committed dancer/writer/researcher who address the war around them and fight to find new narrative possibilities for contested identities.
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“The study is a valuable model for how to weave different layers and information structures around dance transmission in complex political circumstances, and with significant pressures on the ethnographic process.
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“This book provides a fascinating account of a dance form as a mapping tool of the politics of identity that interrogates the limits and possibility of thinking about citizenship.”-Rachmi Diyah Larasati, author of The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia As such, it illustrates in which real-world conflict restrains choreography and the ways in which choreography, through its practitioners, can speak back to a precarious social reality.”-Janet O’Shea, author of At Home in the World:Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage This book aligns dance with experiential reality in a context where daily movement is closely regulated while also identifying dance as a space for imagination. Satkunaratnam extends dance studies’ concern with representation, race and ethnicity and the nation toward a consideration of identity in its most volatile iterations through civil war. “Meticulously researched and thoughtfully argued, Moving Bodies makes a case for understanding dance as central to ethnic conflict while also describing dance as a vehicle for resistance. It is especially valuable as an engagement with dance-making beyond the aesthetic, but rather as one of instability and unevenness, policy and peace.”-Nandini Sikand, author of Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances: The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance “The work refreshingly contests the hegemony of India, and examines (bharatanatyam as) a minority form (in Sri Lanka) traversed via bodies at risk. This was amply brought out by Rangarajan, CPI (M), a member of the Indian parliamentary delegation, which had met a cross section of Tamil leaders and war affected people during their recent visit to Sri Lanka. “A rich study of bharata natyam during and after the decades-long Sri Lankan civil war, Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict generates critical new insights into the circulation of images and gestures, violence and capital, in the midst of ongoing conflicts that do not end, but instead move into other forms or spaces.”-Mimi Thi Nguyen, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The idea of an independent Tamil Eelam itself appears to have been shelved from the minds to Tamils in Sri Lanka. Winner of the of the 2021 de la Torre Bueno® First Book Award presented by Dance Studies Association.Īvailable now via Wesleyan University Press, Barnes & Noble, Chapters Indigo, and Bookshop. Her interdisciplinary methodology combines historical analysis, methods of dance studies, and dance ethnography. International Frame of the Struggle for Tamil Eelam India & the Struggle for Tamil Eelam Tamils & the Struggle Human Rights & Democracy, Sri Lanka Style.
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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. 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. Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict is a groundbreaking ethnographic examination of dance practice in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during the civil war (1983–2009). Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict Practicing Bharata Natyam in Colombo, Sri Lankaīy Ahalya Satkunaratnam, Wesleyan University Press, April 7, 2020