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Purnima Shah

Purnima Shah

Professor of the Practice of Dance
Dance Program
Purnima.Shah@duke.edu
Box 90686, Durham, NC 27708-0686
2020 Campus Drive, Suite 209, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works

Choreographing Society, Special Issue in Dance, Arts Journal

Journal issue Arts Journal · December 30, 2024 Cite

Performance of Thumrī in Kathak Dance

Journal article Asian Theatre Journal · January 1, 2023 During the eighteenth century, Lakhnau, the capital of the royal state of Awadh, emerged as the refined center for the arts. Over the next centuries, kathak maestros and elite tavāifs (soiree singers and dancers) enthralled patron connoisseurs with their e ... Full text Cite

Performance of Thumri in Kathak Dance

Journal article Asian Theatre Journal · 2023 Cite

State Patronage to the Dance Arts in Independent India

Journal article Marg: Special Issue, Readings on Dance from 75 Years of Marg · 2022 Cite

STATE SUPPORT TO DANCE IN INDEPENDENT INDIA

Journal article Marg · January 1, 2022 Cite

State Patronage to the Dance Arts in Independent India

Journal article Marg, The Pathmaking Arts Quarterly · October 2020 Cite

Kalinga Nartana

Artistic production · April 2017 Produced and directed work by visiting Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer Mythili Prakash performed by Duke student dancers at the spring dance concert, ChoreoLab 2017. ... Cite

Oh, Shakti!

Artistic production · March 2015 Conceptualized and produced dance performance by dancer, singer and choreographer Ramya S. Kapadia. Performed for spring dance concert ChoreoLab 2015. ... Cite

Performing Migration: the Journeys of Indian Dance in America

Journal article Attendance: the Dance Annual of India · 2013 Cite

Physio-Spiritual Transcendence through the Practice of Devotional Dance-Theatre in India

Journal article Repertorio: Teatro & Danca, University of Bahia · 2012 This paper is a discussion on the training and practice of devotional dance-theatre in India which emerged between the 16th through 19th centuries as a result of wide spread devotional movements that swept the country. Largely led by devotional saints, the ... Cite

Innovative Approaches in Contemporary Kathak Dance: a Choreographic Appreciation

Journal article Nartanam, a Quarterly Journal of Indian Dance · September 2011 Cite

Purmina Shah: Performances, 2001 - 2010

Artistic production · 2010 Cite

Some Issues on Gender Politics in the Bhakti Genre of Dance-Theatre Performance

Journal article Samipya Journal of Indology · October 2009 Cite

Negotiating Gender in Contemporary Kathak Dance Choreography

Journal article Samipya Journal of Indology · April 2008 Cite

Barbara Stoler Miller Conference, Columbia University: A Critical Appraisal of Contemporary Indian Dance Scholarship

Journal article Dance Research Journal, Special Issue on South Asian dance · December 2004 Cite

2004 Barbara Stoler Miller Conference

Journal article Dance Research Journal · January 1, 2004 Full text Cite

Dashavatar

Artistic production · April 19, 2003 “Dashavatar,” Supervised choreography for Lasya, Duke South Asian classical Dance student group. ... Cite

Solo Kathak dance

Artistic production · June 5, 2001 Choreographed a solo Kathak dance piece for the lead male dancer and Artistic Director of the Southern California NDM School of Indian Film Dancing, Los Angeles. ... Cite

Kathak dance

Artistic production · April 28, 2001 Choreographed Kathak dance performance, University of California, Riverside Asian Indian Culture Show. ... Cite

Transcending Gender in the Performance of Kathak

Journal article Dance Research Journal · October 1998 Cite

Farmayishi Poetics of Kathak: Significance of Reception

Journal article UCLA Journal of Dance Ethnology · 1994 Cite

Contesting Pasts, Performing Futures

Journal article Southern Asian Institute Newsletter, Columbia University Cite