Dr Pallabi Chakravorty is a noted Kathakar, dance artist, choreographer and anthropologist. She's also the author of "Bells of Change" , "This Is How We Dance", and the Chair of Dance at Swarthmore college.
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Show Notes and Timestamps
18:12 Doing Fieldwork as a Shy person
20:30 Being True to your convictions
24:20 Courtyard Dancers
25:12 Beginning of courtyard
33:00 Culture of the courtyard dancers
44: Riyaaz and the Twilight zone
46:34 Kathak and Dance History
49:40 Line
52:18: Kathak as A syncretic dance form
52:30 Can you "define" Kathak?
54:44 The multiplicity of voices in Kathak
55:55 Sufi Kathak, Hindu Kathak, Contemporary Kathak
56:21 Why are you doing a "foreign" dance? The othering of Kathak
59:00 Subhashgram
1:05:00 Unsung Arrival with courtyard dancers, and subhashgram
1:06:00 The feeling on seeing them
1:08:00 Future Projects
1:11:00 Legacy
