Ranjabati sircar biography of martin

If Manjusri Chaki Sircar, situated in post-Independence Bengal as an artist-academic, introduced her version of a feminist enquiry into the representation of women on the Indian dance stage, then her daughter Ranjabati Sircar (1963–99) went a step further and confronted the Indian classical dance establishment head on with her radical rebuttal of not only the form but the pedagogical methods of Indian classical dance.

Obituary: Ranjabati Sircar - The Independent

Also, as co-director of the Dancers’ Guild, Ranjabati Sircar’s input into the Guild’s choreographic works and the formulation of the new dance methodology of Navanritya was instrumental. The paucity of studies on Sircar’s works, therefore, certainly needs to be recompensed. With a few important exceptions — Alessandra Lopez y Royo’s article (2003), which initiated a much-needed scholarly analysis of Sircar’s work, a brief account of Sircar’s choreographies in Gayatri Chattopadhyay’s book in Be Indian Modern Dance, Feminism and Transnationalism - Springer ZANU