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Her Temple Rerun
Profiling or reinterpreting the quintessential devadasi—if there is such a prototype—has been a tragicomic trope of Indian classical dance trying to be modern using the past. The experienced Swapnasunadri has managed to take a few steps forward. In the early 1990s, when she watched Maddula Lakshmi Narayana, a descendant of the devadasi community perform, her impulse was to understand the craft…
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