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With hearts full of gratitude and joy, inDANCE and I invite you to celebrate with us, the concise highlights of our 2023 rewind.

We are deeply grateful for all the love, support and time you have so generously given us over the years.

It feels trite to be celebrating anything during this globally tumultuous time.

2023 has been a welcome year of diverse, productive, national and international projects.

Join us in 2024, and enjoy the inspired collaborations in our singular works of dance.

inDANCE and I wish you a more joyful, healthy, kind, soft, abundant, loving NEW YEAR, filled with incredible art, earthly whimsy and possible magic!

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THANK YOU!

2020 de la Torre Bueno®First Book Special Citation:

"Hari Krishnan’s Celluloid Classicism: Early Tamil Cinema and the Making of Modern Bharatanatyam is an invaluable addition to scholarship on Bharatanatyam in the crucial period between the 1930s and 1950s, offering an impeccably researched and well-argued revision of the common recounting of this phase of the dance’s history which has it that devadasis, if they kept dancing, went into film while Brahmin women dominated the stage, and discourses on caste and morality kept the two realms separate. Krishnan’s archival work is impeccable: combining interviews with readings of key films and reconstructions of lost works using songbooks. Throughout, he is deeply attuned to gender, class, and caste, especially in charting devadasi genealogies in early cinematic works. He includes invaluable reflections on the complexity of working artists’ lives in these crucial periods, and argues persuasively that specific dimensions of some lives undergird the cinematic invention of “classical” bharatanatyam as a middle-class form."

A personal note:

Even in this, seemingly endless sad, dark time, a Blessing, a Glimmer of Light.

Thank you, Providence and the Universe!

I welcome with humility and honor, the 2020 de la Torre Bueno® First Book Special Citation issued to my book, “Celluloid Classicism: Early Tamil Cinema and the Making of Modern Bharatanatyam” (Wesleyan University Press 2019).

Congratulations to all my fellow winners.

Thank you, with all my heart, to the Dance Studies Association Book Review Committee for this recognition.

I owe most, if not all of this recognition, to the indispensable, exemplary Artists and Teachers featured in my book, without whose consummate contributions to the milieu, complex representations of Bharatanatyam during the critical ‘revival’ period will not exist.

My immense gratitude to:

Wesleyan University Press for accepting and publishing my book,

Artists past and present who continue to inspire me,

my Colleagues for challenging and motivating me,

my Family and Friends for their unconditional love,

and Dance Lovers for whom this book was written.

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