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Diana Brenscheidt

Musicology, dramatics and media science and also political science at Köln University.

Art and Humanism.
Uday Shankar and Dance between India and the West

Diana Brenscheidt studied musicology, dramatics and media science and also political science at Köln University. Study visits in the USA at Chicago University. Thesis: "Music, sound and silence. About the composition of the sound-level in Satyajit Rays film". Reasearch assistant at a DFG-project: "Indien und Europa. Ein musiksoziologischer Kulturvergleich", furthermore research visits in India. Since April 2006 Member of the Graduate School at the Huamnism Project.

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Working title: Art and Humanism. Uday Shankar and Dance between India and the West
The project focuses on the international reception of the Indian dancer Uday Shankar (1900-77). With his choreographies based on classical Indian dance and folk dances, Uday Shankar was very successful with dance critics, artists and audiences mainly in Europe (Germany, France, Great Britain) and the United States as well as – at least for a while – in India. Examined as an example of intercultural dialogue on dance, art and aesthetics between India and the Western world, the project combines Western perspectives from the dance and art scene with comments and aesthetic approaches by Indian artists, aestheticians or dance experts, such as Rabindranath Tagore and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, who strongly influenced the discussion on Uday Shankar and the renaissance of Indian dance in general.