The New Yorker recently ran a story on choreographer Bijayini Satpathy who held a Regents Lectureship in our department. The author also references Anurima Banerji’s book.
Performers like Bijayini Satpathy, a star of the Odissi style, are interrogating the nationalist and colonial legacies embedded in India’s dance traditions.
By Jennifer Homans The New Yorker
January 8, 2024
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/15/how-classical-is-indian-classical-dance