MARTOR no. 30 / year 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.57225/Martor.2025.13
REVIEWED BY:
Debanjali Biswas
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
ORCID: 0000-0002-3653-8924
PAGES: 192-195
KEYWORDS: Debarshi Prasad Nath; Ralph Buck; Barbara Snook; Brahmaputra; North East India; dance; community.
ABSTRACT:
Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra is a refreshing account on dances of India’s eastern states. An earnest effort to treat a wide range of movement traditions, this collection of essays expounds how community-led embodied practices draw on ancestral legacies and resources to give shape to dance in the twenty-first century. Interwoven throughout the text is the idea that community engagement is integral for the sustenance of dance not only in rituals, but also in spaces regulated by state and national institutions of culture and higher education. The book is an output of a coalition between Tezpur University (Assam, India) and the University of Auckland (New Zealand) fostering collaborative research partnerships. Editors Debarshi Prasad Nath and Barbara Snook thread the relationships between artistic practice and lived experience across various communities while drawing out the place of dance in society.
HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE:
Biswas, Debanjali. “Debarshi Prasad Nath, Ralph Buck, and Barbara Snook, eds. 2024. Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra: Celebrating Dance in North East India. London and New York: Routledge. 290 pages.” Martor 30, 192-195. [DOI: 10.57225/Martor.2025.13]
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