{"product_id":"unmaking-contact-choreographing-south-asian-touch-paperback","title":"Unmaking Contact: Choreographing South Asian Touch - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoyona Mitra\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnmaking Contact \u003c\/em\u003einterrogates \"contact\", understood in Global North dance discourse as a shorthand for the movement discipline of contact improvisation (CI) and its characteristic shifting points of weight-sharing between two or more bodies through physical touch, by attending to power asymmetries that are foundational to this practice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy placing South Asian aesthetics, bodies, discourses, and philosophies on touch at the heart of its interrogation through the lenses of caste, ecology, faith, gender, and sexuality, author Royona Mitra argues for an intersectional, intercultural, and inter-epistemic understanding of contact, that may or may not involve touch. The book shifts and expands understandings of \"contact\" in dance-making through intercultural epistemologies that examine notions of touch and contact. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book the term contact signals both a shorthand for CI and a shift away from it to more expansive choreographic considerations. It becomes an apparatus for dismantling power regimes; it is conjured as a catalyst to examine power in social relations; it appears as a fulcrum of ecological relationality; it arises as critical encounters full of generative and transformative potential; and finally, it manifests as community.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoyona Mitra \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Dance and Performance Cultures at Brunel University of London, UK. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eAkram Khan: Dancing New Interculturalism.\u003c\/em\u003e Her research examines systems of oppression in dance and performance cultures at the intersections of bodies, social power regimes, and choreography as resistance. She contributes to the fields of diaspora and performance, South Asian dance and performance cultures, critical dance studies and performance studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 9.23 x 6.19 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52711186137395,"sku":"9780197627778","price":66.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/2TNit2KNSs9780197627778.webp?v=1763510309","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/unmaking-contact-choreographing-south-asian-touch-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}