"Dance: Transcending Borders"

a  World Dance Alliance-Asia Pacific project, edited by Urmimala Sarkar Munsi is now available.

To order a copy, please email
tulikapublishers@vsnl.com or  mailto:tulikadelhi@gmail.com
or purchase online: www.scholarswithoutborders.in, www.ipda.in

May 2008
Hardback
292 pages
9.5 x 6.25 inches
ISBN: 978-81-89487-38-6
Rs 595 / US$ 25
Published by Tulika Books, New Delhi, India

About the book
As globalisation forces us to revisit the ‘local’ in dance, an
examination of the processes of identity formation, generation and
affirmation becomes very necessary. The world of dance in today’s
context is constantly being shaped by the nature of the state,
politicised markets, the dialogues taking place within and between
cultures, as well as the growing importance of multimedia skills. As the
identity of dance and of dancers undergoes constant interrogation and
reorganisation, there is an increasing need to establish dialogues
across regions, and to identify and understand the major areas of
concern ­ some of which may be common to all, while others may be
specific to the social­political­historical conditions of particular
countries.

This edited volume, a project of the Research and Documentation Network
of the World Dance Alliance­Asia Pacific, brings together renowned
scholars from the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas and Europe, to
discuss issues of global and local importance that are at the centre of
contemporary research. It hopes to generate a fruitful inter-regional
and/or inter-country understanding of the art form, as dance and dancers
themselves step out and transcend borders.