By Priya Srinivasan
A groundbreaking e-book that seeks to appreciate dance as exertions, Sweating Saris examines dancers not only as aesthetic our bodies yet as transnational migrant staff and salary earners who negotiate citizenship and gender issues.
Srinivasan merges ethnography, background, serious race concept, functionality and post-colonial stories between different disciplines to enquire the embodied adventure of Indian dance. The dancers’ sweat stained and soaked saris, the aching limbs are emblematic of worldwide circulations of work, our bodies, capital, and business goods. hence the sweating sari of the dancer stands in for her unrecognized labor.
Srinivasan shifts clear of the standard emphasis on Indian ladies dancers as tradition bearers of the Indian kingdom. She asks us to reframe the routine of overdue 19th century transnational Nautch Indian dancers to the foremother of contemporary dance Ruth St. Denis within the early 20th century to modern teenage dancers in Southern California, providing a transformative concept of dance, gendered-labor, and citizenship that's far-reaching.
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