symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Gitanjali Kolanad, choreographer and writer, Shiv Nadar University, Dadri, UP

• COURTESANS, BAR GIRLS, DANCING BOYS AND BOLLYWOOD DANCE
  Anna Morcom, ethnomusicologist, Royal Holloway, University of London

• YOUNG GIRLS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS DANCE
  Gitanjali Kolanad, choreographer and writer, Shiv Nadar University, Dadri, UP

• AN OVERLAY OF THE POLITICAL: THE RECOGNITION OF SATTRIYA
  Arshiya Sethi, dance scholar and arts administrator, Delhi

• WHY SADIR?
  Amrit Srinivasan, Tagore National Fellow for Cultural Research; former Professor of Sociology, IIT Delhi

• AKRAM KHAN: DANCE AS RESISTANCE
  Royona Mitra, Senior Lecturer in Theatre, Department of Arts and Humanities, Brunel University London

• FROM NOWHERE, FROM WITHIN
  Soraya Peerbaye, dance consultant, dramaturge and poet, Toronto

• HINDI FILM DANCE
  V.A.K. Ranga Rao, dancer, scholar and critic, Chennai

• INTERVIEW
  with Swapna Sundari, dancer, Delhi; Padmini Chettur, dancer and choreographer, Chennai; and Kapila Venu, practitioner of Koodiaattam, and Director, Natanakairali - Research, Training and Performing Centre for Traditional Arts, Irinjalakuda, Kerala

• BHARATANATYAM IN THE NEW AGE
  Lakshmi Viswanathan, Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer, Chennai

• DANCE WITHOUT MOVING
  Aparna Uppaluri Banerjee, Founder-Director, Antara Collective; runs the Science and Society program, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore

• A PERFECT STILLNESS: THE ART OF SHANTA RAO
  Ashoke Chatterjee, former Executive Director, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad; former President, Crafts Council of India

•  BOOKS
  Reviewed by Brahma Prakash

• COMMENT
  Punjab in Ferment by Ashutosh Kumar, Professor and Deputy Coordinator, UGC-CAS, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh

• IN MEMORIAM
  Veenapani Chawla 1947-2014

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