The Undoing Dance: You Will Be Seduced Completely
$38.00
Author: | Srividya Natarajan |
ISBN 13: | 9789386228895 |
Binding: | Hardbound |
Language: | English |
Year: | 2018 |
Subject: | Anthropology and Sociology/Women Studies |
About the Book
Kalyani comes from a lineage of famous devadasis, though there is no place for her talent in the Madras of newly independent India. The devadasis, once celebrated as artists, are shunned as 'prostitutes' in a modern country. In exchange for a comfortable life as the wife of a wealthy arts promoter, Kalyani has to keep her origins hidden and abandon her mother, Rajayi. When a Bharatanatyam dancer from the city sets out to record Rajayi's dance repertoire on film, the carefully wrapped-up past threatens to unravel.