Conference Programme

Panel 1 (In person)

Globalising Mohiniyattam: Idea of Feminine Dance and its Mediation through Digital Platforms

                          Dr. Swetha Mangalath (Independent Scholar)

Resilient Rhythms: UK South Asian Community Dance Practitioners during the Covid-19 lockdown.

                          Hiten Mistry  (Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University)

Panel 2 (In person)

#bharatanatyam: Transforming Bharata Natyam Through Social Media Platforms

                          Dr. Rohini Acharya (Oberlin College and Conservatory)

Sharing Movement: Collaboration, ownership and making Indian dance online

                          Dr. Hetty Blades and Vipavinee Artpradid (Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University)

Panel 3 (In person/Virtual)

                          Ranjini Nair (University of Cambridge)

Cast(e)ing the stage: Memoirs of the Anti-caste Movement in Karnataka

                          Yashashwani Srinivas (University of Leeds)

Performance and Discussion (Virtual)

Fostering Sisterhood over Zoom

                           Veena Basavarajaiah and Surabhi Bharadwaj (Independent Artists)

Break

Keynote Address

A Digital Archive of Beauties and Beloveds: Nautch in the Age of Mechanical Reprodarshan      

                  Dr. Prarthana Purkayastha (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Coffee

Panel 4 (In person)

Many Sounds One Sea:  Revisit into the Kolkkali Performance of Mappilas of Malabar
                         Dr. Mohamed Haseeb N. (PSMO College) and Dr. Shibinu Shahul Hameed (University of Mangalore)

“Why did you go to India and what did you bring back?”: American Postmodernism in Kerala (1970-76)
                          Dr Tom Hastings (London Contemporary Dance School)

The dual onus of decolonialisation and de-Sanskritisation of the transnational Classical Indian dance
                          Giridhar Raghunathan (University of Roehampton)

Panel 5 (In person/Virtual)

Digital metamorphosis of the project “Life in transition”
                          Srinwanti Chakrabarti and Dr. Karin Bindu (University of Vienna)

“every.single.one: healing dimensions of dance in stratified mediated space”
                          Cherie Sampson (University of Missouri, Columbia)

Panel 6 (In person)

"It’s Gender, Not Caste”: A Digital Discourse Analysis of Indian Dance's #MeToo Movement and the Negation of Intersectionality

                          Dr. Royona Mitra (Brunel University London), Dr. Anusha Kedhar (University of California, Riverside), and Dr. Anurima Banerji (University of California, Los Angeles) 

Mohiniyattam Presentation

Padmashri Bharati Shivaji's Mohiniyattam: Innovations, Collaborations, and Global Outreach 

                          Parvathi Jayaram (Independent Artist)

Closing thoughts and conversations