List of Figures. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements.1. Dance Matters II: IntroductionPart I 2. Mah Laqa Bai: The Remains of a Courtesan's Dance3. Conflict between Cultural Perpetuation and Environmental Protection: A Case Study of Ritual Performance in North Malabar, South India4. Bodies and Borders: The Odissi Costume Controversy5.

I Know It and I Name It as I Do It: Embodied Practice as a Key to Understand Performance6. Cosmopolitan Then and Cosmopolitan Now: Rabindranrtiya Meets Dance Reality ShowsPart II 7. Corporatization of Dance: Changing Landscape in Choreography and Patronage since Economic Liberalization in Bengaluru8. Negotiating Space for Dance within the Spectrum of Contemporary Performing Arts in a Globalized India: The Experiences of an Indian Arts Manager9. Bollywood Dance: Desire for the 'Other'Part III 10. Rasalila Remixed: Tracing the Dances of an Image11. Why Dance Today in India? A Philosophical Approach12. Playing Dance and Dancing Music: The Work of Intimacy in Kathak 13.

Embodiment, Reflexivity and Practice-as-Research in Indian Dance: A Case Study14. Remixing Natya : Revanta Sarabhai's LDR and Post Natyam Collective's Super Ruwaxi : Origins Part IV 15. Dancers and Critics: Re-viewing Tagore16. Pedagogy of Manipuri Dance: In and Beyond the Temple Premise17. Text, Context and Interpreter: Understanding the Paradigms of Sattriya Dance and Dancer in the Changing Space18. Why Dancing the Sensual Sculptures Matters? Considering a Sensory Paradigm for Odissi Dance Index.