中图分类法:	J709 版次：
著者:	Kedhar, Anusha,
题名:	Flexible bodies : [ British South Asian dancers in an age of neoliberalism /] / ,
载体形态:	320 pages ; 24 cm
内容提要:	"Flexible Bodies charts the emergence of British South Asian dance as a distinctive dance genre. Analyzing dances, dance films, rehearsals, workshops, and touring alongside immigration policy, arts funding initiatives, citizenship discourse, and global economic conditions, author Anusha Kedhar evokes the feel of British South Asian dance as it moves from 'Cool Britannia' multiculturalism in the 1990s to fractious race relations in the wake of the July 7th, 2005 terrorist attacks to austerity measures and the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis, and, finally, to the Brexit referendum in 2016. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with dancers in Britain and India, in-depth choreographic analysis of major dance works, and the author's own lived experiences as a professional dancer in London, Flexible Bodies tells the story of British South Asian dancers and the creative ways in which they negotiate the demands of neoliberal, multicultural dance markets through an array of flexible bodily practices, including agility, versatility, mobility, speed, and risk-taking. However, flexibility, the book demonstrates, is also a precarious road to success that can stretch dancers (almost) to breaking point. Theorizing flexibility as material and metaphor, the book argues that flexibility is both a tool of labor exploitation and a bodily tactic that British South Asian dancers exploit to navigate volatile economic and political conditions. With its unique focus on the everyday aspects of dancing and dance-making Flexible Bodies honors the lives and labor of dancers and their contributions to a distinct and dynamic sector"--
主题词:	Dance History. South Asia
主题词:	Dance History. Great Britain
主题词:	Dancers History. South Asia
主题词:	Dancers History. Great Britain
主题词:	Neoliberalism Great Britain.
主题词:	Multiculturalism Great Britain.