Freitag, 22. April 2016, 15:15 - 16:45 iCal
Dance and Dancers in Indian Cinema
Ein Vortrag von Dr. Tiziana Leucci (Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud , CNRS)
Seminarraum 1 des Instituts für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
Universitätscampus, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.7, 1090 Wien
Vortrag
The presentation will deal with the crucial role played by dance and dancers in Bollywood films and forms of regional Indian cinema(s). Special attention will be paid to the dancers, masters and musicians who belong to the hereditary communities of artists performing in temples, at courts and in the setting of the salon (known in South India under the generic terms devada?si?, ra?jada?si? and nat?t?uvan?a?r) and acted, choreographed and sang for these movies, making them highly successful. The lecture will also focus on the speaker’s Bharat Natyam dance master, the late nat?t?uvan?a?r V.S. Muthuswamy Pillai, who worked for the cinema in the 1940s and 1950s, trained quite a number of dancers and film actresses, and choreographed several items performed by them in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi movies. Interestingly, some members of the hereditary communities of performing artists found in the cinema a way to continue practicing their profession, which had been taken away from them by other communities after the application of the 1947 Devadasi Act. Stigmatized and criminalized by this law, for a short time they found some kind of patronage in the cinema, though this was not devoid of ambiguity.
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Veranstalter
Institut für Südasien- ,Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde in Kooperation mit der Indischen Botschaft, Wien
Kontakt
Judith Starecek
Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
4277 43502
judith.starecek@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Montag, 11. April 2016, 14:50
Letzte Änderung am Dienstag, 12. April 2016, 14:09