A Provocation for Screendance as a Secular Space

Bhattacharyya, Sumedha (2021) A Provocation for Screendance as a Secular Space. The International Journal of Screendance, 12. pp. 317-324. ISSN 2154-6878

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Abstract

The dancer and the camera do not exist in a vacuum They co exist in a space that is not transparent and innocent but complex and layered socio-political and religious structures of power. They are imbued with Power Power drives, escalates, and charges us like a field condition. Dance and camera exist in field conditions of Power. Power is intrinsically connected to how the dancer and the camera interact. Dance for Camera, Dance on Camera, Dance with Camera These are connecting words that imply power and non-transparency. Such is a world that the pandemic saw Rights of being human, forcibly taken, to solemnly resolve to constitute a Secular country, Together, we, the people of the world, are receiving a continuous assault on values of secularism and democracy. We need to talk about the Secular, as citizens first and dancers later Secular is not anti-somereligion It is for-everyreligion I write here, today, navigating and questioning the Secular in Screendance, Why do I always see an Indian dancing in front of a beautiful monument

Item Type: Article
Keywords: dance | secular | camera | pandemic | tradition | gender | duet with camera
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Arts and Humanities > Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Social Sciences and humanities > Arts and Humanities > Arts and Humanities (General)
JGU School/Centre: Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities
Depositing User: Mr Luckey Pathan
Date Deposited: 07 May 2025 19:56
Last Modified: 07 May 2025 19:56
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.18061/ijsd.v12i0.8173
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/9466

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