{"title":"Akhila Vimal C.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAkhila Vimal C. is a dancer and a performance theorist. Her research explores the intersection of performance studies, ritual studies, ethnochoreology, dance pedagogy, reception studies and disability aesthetics. Her work focuses on intercultural performance traditions from India, including history, training, principles, contemporary practices and textual narratives. She recently finished her Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of World Arts Cultures\/Dance, UCLA. As a visually impaired dancer, Akhila’s research is located at the intersection of performance and disability, blind dance pedagogy and practice as research. Her doctorate is in Theatre and Performance Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU (2021). An extensive corpus of work indicates significant contributions to intellectual debate, with articles appearing prominently in prestigious journals and edited volumes. In recognition of her contributions to the Performance and Disability scholarship, she received the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR) New Scholar Award in 2021. Akhila serves as the guest editor of the Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship, affiliated with the World Dance Alliance. Additionally, she was elected as the first vice president for Access, Equity and Inclusion with the Association for Asian Performance (2024–26). She is also the co-authors of the Harper Collins book Continued Traditions and Histories of Performing Arts. She is the Founder \u0026amp; Managing Trustee of Sapta Foundation, an interdisciplinary initiative committed to accessibility, inclusivity, sacred ecology, cultural continuity, equitable education, and justice across physical, cultural, ecological, and knowledge landscapes in India.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"performing-disfiguration-akhila-vimal-c-ebook","title":"Performing Disfiguration","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Prologue to Performing Disfiguration: Framing Contexts and Cultural Echoes.- Segment I: Bleeding Bodies on Stage: Punishment, Aesthetic and the Divine.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Ambiguities of the Classical: Blood, Mutilation, and Performance.- Chapter 2: Ritual: Problematizing Real Blood.- Chapter 3: Performing Pain: Correlating Marma and Performance.- Conclusion.- Segment II: Performing Madness: Codified, Divine, Gendered, and Caste-bound Relations.- Introduction.- Chapter 4: Beyond Normal: Performance of Madness and its Ambivalence.- Chapter 5: Madness: Narratives of Chaatthan and Parava.- Chapter 6: Trance and Possession: Ritual Madness and Choreographed Alterations.- Conclusion.- Segment III: Laughter: Performance and Reception.- Introduction.- Chapter 7: Laughter in Classical Performance: Classification and Characterization.- Chapter 8: Laughing Teyyam: Caste, Disability and Gender.- Chapter 9: The Laughing Spectator: A Brief Analysis on Reception.- Conclusion.-  An Epilogue Rooted in Cultural Memory: The Ongoing Journey of Disfiguration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akhila Vimal C.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53652288274759,"sku":"9789819624485","price":117.69,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0920\/5455\/2903\/files\/performing-disfiguration-ebook-cover.webp?v=1775348373"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0920\/5455\/2903\/collections\/akhila-vimal-c-autor-kollektion.webp?v=1775348371","url":"https:\/\/www.cinebuch.de\/collections\/akhila-vimal-c.oembed","provider":"CineBuch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}