Choreography And The Sacred Exploring Bharata Natyam As A Feminist Strategy In Celebrating The Liturgy Of The Eucharist

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie D'SOUZA
Keyword(s):  
Bharata Natyam ◽  
Feminist Strategy

Beyond anthropomorphism: Odissi and the botanical

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-165
Author(s):  
Sally Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Body Schema ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Bharata Natyam ◽  
Indian Dance ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Tribal Cultures ◽  
Cultural Body

Drawing on experiences that have entailed watching and learning forms of so-called ‘Indian dance’ (Bharata Natyam and Odissi), and watching Odissi dancers performing in various locations in Orissa’s ‘sacred triangle’ (Puri, Konark, Bhubaneswar), and against my own background in contemporary dance, I propose that the difference of the Odissi body is that the dancer dances with his or her feet in more than one kingdom – that is, he or she maintains a link between human bodies and the bodies of plants. Such a perception can help to displace questions of the dancer’s spatiality and representations, challenging western or westernized visions of the industrial or mechanical body, assumed hierarchies of body parts and their signifying powers, and assumptions about the role of the joints. The sense of a botanical imaginary or specific cultural body-schema at work in Odissi dance is supported by discussion of historical and ethnographic literature pertaining to the (former) female dancers of the Jagannath Temple in Puri; the temple’s links with Oriyan tribal cultures; the dancers’ traditional importance according to an axis of social auspiciousness/inauspiciousness as opposed to social purity/impurity; and the particular processes of the reconstruction of Odissi dance (separate from that of Bharata natyam) after independence.

scholarly journals The Hassle of Housework: Digitalisation and the Commodification of Domestic Labour

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Huws
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
New Strategies ◽  
Feminist Strategy ◽  
Gender Division Of Labour

This article revisits materialist second-wave feminist debates about domestic labour in the context of digitalisation. Using a differentiated typology of labour, it looks at how the tasks involved in housework have undergone dramatic changes through commodification, decommodification and recommodification without fundamentally altering the gender division of labour in social reproduction, drawing on recent research on the use of online platforms to deliver social reproductive labour via the market in a context in which reproductive labour sits at the centre of an intense time squeeze. It reflects on the implications of the commodification of domestic labour for feminist strategy. The author points to the inadequacy in this context of traditional feminist strategies—for the socialisation of domestic labour through public services, wages for housework or labour-saving through technological solutions—concluding that new strategies are needed that address the underlying social relations that perpetuate unequal divisions of labour in contemporary capitalism.

Opacity as a feminist strategy

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
Raili Marling
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Strategy

The Hand in Art: Hand Gestures in Bharata Natyam

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 2060-2061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmadreza Afshar ◽  
Neda Afshar
Keyword(s):  
Hand Gestures ◽  
Bharata Natyam

Bharata Natyam: A Hindu Fractal

1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 19-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Bharata Natyam
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