To Be Continued: Thoughts on Dance as Response, Responsibility, and Resistance

This chapter interrogates the role/function of dance once again—as it continues in its various forms of practice and presentation, specifically in the Indian context. While the spectre of the fast-changing scenario of contemporary dance scenes in the world remains as a reflective presence, the basic focus remains on the ways in which dance in India has become more and more defined by its presentational possibilities as a proscenium art, often obsessively dependent on its aesthetic fixities.