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  title info:
    title: Unmaking contact
    sub title: choreographing South Asian touch
  name:
    name part: Mitra, Royona
    name part: 1978-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Akila
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Naidu, Diya
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Siddiqui, Nahid
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Vagistan, Lawhore
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxviii, 256 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: 'Unmaking Contact' interrogates 'contact' through the examination of South Asian aesthetics, bodies, discourses, and philosophies on physical and intersubjective touch and relations within dance, and shifting its conceptualisation beyond contact improvisation.
  abstract: "Unmaking Contact: Choreographing South Asian Touch interrogates “contact,” understood in Global North dance discourse as a shorthand for the movement discipline of contact improvisation (CI) and its characteristic shifting points of weight-sharing between two or more bodies through physical touch, by attending to inherent power asymmetries that are foundational to this practice. By placing South Asian aesthetics, bodies, discourses, and philosophies on touch at the heart of its interrogation through the lenses of caste, ecology, faith, gender, and sexuality, the book argues for an intersectional, intercultural, and inter-epistemic understanding of contact that may or may not involve touch. The book shifts and expands understandings of “contact” in dance-making through intercultural epistemologies that examine notions of touch and contact, which are often used interchangeably in Global North dance discourse. In this book, the term “contact” signals both a shorthand for CI and a shift away from it to more expansive choreographic considerations: it becomes an apparatus for dismantling power regimes (Chapter 1); it is conjured as a catalyst to examine power in social relations (Chapter 2); it appears as a fulcrum of ecological relationality (Chapter 3); it arises as critical encounters full of generative and transformative potential (Chapter 4); and finally, it manifests as community (Afterwords). The book examines the interconnections between these expansive and varied manifestations of “contact” and their relationships to physical touch, by foregrounding South Asian aesthetics, artistic practices, philosophies, and voices of four transnationally located South Asian–heritage dance-artists—India-based Akila and Diya Naidu, UK-Pakistan-based Nahid Siddiqui, and US-based LaWhore Vagistan—who become the touchstones of each of the chapters and the Afterwords"--
  table of contents: Introduction: Unmaking contact -- Contact as caste justice: Theenda Theenda (2018) by Akila and The Touch of Death -- Contact as reframing sociality: Rorschach Touch (2018) by Diya Naidu and "Normalizing Touch" -- Contact as ecological relationality: Mirror Within (2022) by Nahid Siddiqui and Shakila Maan and touch without tactility -- Contact as Adda: critical encounters in #KAATENAHINKATTE Instareel (2020) by LaWhore Vagistan and digital touching -- Afterwords: Against conclusions.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Royona Mitra with Akila, Diya Naidu, Nahid Siddiqui, Lawhore Vagistan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: az-----
  subject:
    topic: Choreography
    geographic: South Asia
  subject:
    topic: Touch
    geographic: South Asia
  subject:
    topic: Improvisation in dance
    geographic: South Asia
  subject:
    topic: Improvisation in dance
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: South Asia
  subject:
    topic: Chorégraphie
    geographic: Asie méridionale
  subject:
    topic: Improvisation (Danse)
    geographic: Asie méridionale
  subject:
    topic: Improvisation (Danse)
    topic: Aspect social
    geographic: Asie méridionale
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS
  subject:
    topic: Modern
  subject:
    topic: Dance
  subject:
    topic: Choreography & Dance Notation
  subject:
    topic: History & Criticism
  subject:
    topic: Dance
  subject:
    topic: Performing Arts
  classification: GV1689 .M5 2025
  classification: 792.80954
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Unmaking contact
    name:
      name part: Mitra, Royona, 1978-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (DLC) 2025005394
    identifier: (OCoLC)1472919186
  identifier: 9780197627808
  identifier: 0197627803
  identifier: 9780197627761
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 250122
    record change date: 20260319205722.6
    record identifier: in00005727932
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng