Flexible Bodies: British South Asian Dancers in an Age of Neoliberalism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780190840143)

Flexible Bodies honors the lives and labor of British South Asian dancers and celebrates their contributions to a distinct and dynamic sector of British dance. Drawing on expertise gained from over seven years dancing in Britain, author Anusha Kedhar presents a multifaceted picture of British South Asian dance as its own distinctive genre.ﾂAnalyzing dance works, dance films, rehearsals, and touring - alongside immigration policy, arts funding initiatives, and global economic conditions - Flexible Bodies traces shifts in British South Asian dance from 1990s "Cool Britannia" multiculturalism to fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis and, more recently, the anti-immigration rhetoric leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016. Kedhar draws on over a decade of interviews and conversations with dancers in Britain as well as in-depth choreographic analysis of major dance works to reveal the creative ways in which British South Asian dancers negotiate neoliberal, multicultural dance markets through an array of flexible bodily practices. Providing a new, critical dance studies lens through which to view the precarious economic, racial, national, and legal positions of South Asians in Britain, Flexible Bodiesﾂultimately argues for centering dance labor in studies of neoliberalism.

Author: Anusha Kedhar
ISBN-10: 0190840145
ISBN-13: 9780190840143
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2020
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d