Decolonising Dance History

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58786/rbed.2022.v1.n1.53729

Keywords:

Dance History, Indian dance, Decolonization

Author Biography

Prarthana Purkayastha, Royal Holloway University of London, England

Prarthana Purkayastha teaches at Royal Holloway University of London. Her book on Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism was published by Palgrave Macmillan in the New World Choreographies series in 2014 and subsequently won the 2015 de la Torre Bueno Award from the Society of Dance History Scholars and the 2015 Outstanding Publication Award from the Congress on Dance Research. Her dance research examining the intersections of race, gender and nationality has been published in different journals such as Dance Research Journal, Performance Research, Asian Theatre Journal, CLIO: Femmes, Genre et Histoire and South Asia Research, among others.

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PURKAYASTHA, Prarthana. Decolonising Dance History. Brazilian Journal of Dance Research, [S. l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 371–388, 2024. DOI: 10.58786/rbed.2022.v1.n1.53729. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rbed/article/view/53729. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022): Outras Danças, Muitas Histórias

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