An intimate ethnography

Abstract

This essay delineates the pleasures, paradoxes, and predicaments of representing the South Asian dancing body in visual terms. While the racialized body is often regarded as a metonym of culture, the author proposes “an intimate ethnography” as a strategy of subverting the exoticizing impulse inherent in the dominant gaze. The artists offer new visions of dance that interrogate the naturalized links between the body and culture–suggesting ambiguity, partiality, and evocation as other ways of contemplating the photographic image and constructing another politics for looking at dance.

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