In this article, Chakravorty argues that \u201cthe term \u2018interculturalism\u2019 needs reformulation in contemporary dance and theatre studies\u201d and that, more often than not, Western depictions of classical Indian dances are less \u201ccultural sharing\u201d and more cultural appropriations that reduce or ignore the perspectives of marginalized voices (the Indian dancers themselves). Soneji also \u201cdiscusses and reviews several arguments concerning how Indian womanhood became synonymous with Indian tradition.\u201d Her central argument analyzes how \u201cthe discourse of \u2018East\u2019 and \u2018West\u2019 fused to form both the dominant ideology of classical Indian dance and a nationalist reconstruction of a linear progressive history for the incipient Indian nation-state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this article, Chakravorty argues that \u201cthe term \u2018interculturalism\u2019 needs reformulation in contemporary dance and theatre studies\u201d and that, more often than not, Western depictions of classical Indian dances are less \u201ccultural sharing\u201d and more cultural appropriations that reduce or ignore the perspectives of marginalized voices (the Indian dancers themselves). Soneji also \u201cdiscusses and reviews Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[55,82],"tags":[25,24,23,26],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance","category-history-dance","tag-cultural-appropriation","tag-dance","tag-history","tag-secondary-source"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t