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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 - Journal articles

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

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

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

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