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Corporeal practice in urban transitions

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The dance form Odissi is considered to be the classical dance of the Indian State Odisha. This dance genre emerged in relation to nationalism around the Indian Independence, and has played an important role in post Independence India as a performance genre for urban stages claiming a high cultural status. I am interrogating the developments of the practice in the present scenario. India has undergone a major economical growth in the past two decades. Odissi is an urban phenomenon, predominantly practised in the capital city of the State Odisha, Bhubaneswar. This town is undergoing a galloping urban growth. Additionally, the technological revolution has modified the ways in which people communicate. So while Odissi is seen as 'traditional', its practitioners constantly adapt to many rapid changes. After the nineteen fifties, a genealogy had emerged, that highlighted male practitioners from rural backgrounds as masters of the dance, female practitioners grown up in the city as interpreters. As generations move by, how is this relational divide evolving? What are, today, the stakes in individual careers? What are the expectations of those who join the practices? A point that I wish to pay particular attention to is how the transmission of the dance is evolving along with the manifold developments in society. Previous generations highlighted dance practice as a life choice, and valued a vernacular transmission model based on a strong bond between a teacher and a learner. In today's situation, teaching models seem more diversified. How are values evolving? What changes in the practices? And how do practitioners view the know-how of the dance in the changing scenario? I propose to look at operational chains and their effect on the way the corporeal practices evolve along with changes in the relations between learners and teachers. How far do the dynamics that emerge reproduce previous constellations of power relations?
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hal-04432100 , version 1 (01-02-2024)

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Barbara Čurda. Corporeal practice in urban transitions. AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association; Canadian Anthropology Society, Nov 2023, Toronto, Canada. ⟨hal-04432100⟩
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