BOOK CHAPTERS

“He’s an Animal:”
Naturalizing the Hyperreal in Modern Combat Sport
In Bowman Paul, ed. The Martial Arts Studies Reader. Rowman & Littlefield International. 2018.

Making Play Work: Competition, Spectacle and Intersubjectivity
in Hybrid Martial Arts
In Dodds, Sherril, ed. Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition. Oxford University Press. 2018.

Festivals and Local Identities in a Global Economy:
the Festival of India and Dance Umbrella
In DeFrantz, Thomas and Rothfield, Philipa, eds. Choreography and Corporeality: RELAY in Motion. Palgrave Macmillan. 2016.

From Temple to Battlefield: Bharata Natyam in Sri Lanka.
In Giersdorf, Jens and Morris, Gay, eds. Choreographies of 21st Century Wars. Oxford University Press. 2016.

Das Lokale Vermarkten (Marketing the Local):
The Festival of India and Dance Umbrella
In Hardt, Yvonne and Stern, Martin, eds. Choreographie und Institution (Choreography and Institution). Transcript. 2011.

Roots/Routes of
Dance Studies
In Carter, Alexandra and O’Shea, Janet, eds. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, 2nd edition. London, New York: 2010.

Unbalancing the Authentic/Partnering Classicism:
Shobana Jeyasingh’s Choreography and the
Bharata Natyam ‘Tradition’
In Lansdale, Janet, ed. Decentring Dancing Texts: The Challenge of Interpreting Dances. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2008.

Serving Two Masters? Bharata Natyam and
Tamil Cultural Production
In Soneji, Davesh and Indira Viswanathan Peterson, eds. Transformations in South Indian Performing Arts. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2008.

Dancing through History
and Ethnography:
An Inquiry into Bharata Natyam’s Performance
of the Past
In Buckland, Theresa Jill, ed. Dancing from Past to Present: Nation, Cultures, Identities. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. 2006.

Rukmini Devi:
Rethinking the Classical
In Meduri, Avanthi, ed. Rukmini Devi Arundale:
A Visionary Architect of Indian Culture and Performing Arts. New Delhi: Motilal Barnarsidass. 2005.