This is the companion website to Is It All About Hips? Bollywood Dance Around the World. The links and embedded videos included here are intended to provide audio-visual context for Bollywood dance in dance and film. The linked videos are organized by chapter and refer to specific passages in the book.
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Another review! This time in the Sunday Indian. Is It All About Hips? has a lot more to say besides hip movements and pelvic thrusts.
The Hindu, a major Indian newspaper, reviews the book "Dancing to narrative needs and audience preferences."
Nepali Times talks about the book, "Straight from the hip."
In book stores October 2011!
Watch the re-broadcast of Sangita's book release party on October 6 here!
Numerous Bollywood-themed dance classes have sprung up in India and abroad to quench the demand of Indian and non-Indian audiences to learn dance movements they have seen in Bollywood films. The first comprehensive book on Bollywood dance culture, Is It All About Hips? traces Bollywood dances as they are interpreted, created, and produced in three locations: Mumbai (India), Kathmandu (Nepal), and Los Angeles (USA).
In this pioneering work, Sangita Shresthova brings alive the world of Bollywood dance through the chronicling and analyses of live performances, dance classes, film spectatorship, and personal narratives.
Watch how dances travel, and meanings unravel…
A dancer and media artist, Sangita Shresthova holds a Ph.D. from the Department of World Arts and Cultures (UCLA) and is currently the Research Director of the Media Activism & Participatory Politics Project at the University of Southern California.
Sage Publishing released this book in October 2011.
Sage Publishing released this book in October 2011.
