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Professor Royona Mitra
Associate PVC (EDI) / Professor - Dance and Performance Cultures

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Mitra, R. (2024) 'Unmaking Contact: Choreographing South Asian Touch'. Oxford University Press.

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Mitra, R. (2022) 'Unmaking Contact: Choreographic Touch at the Intersections of Race, Caste, and Gender'. Dance Research Journal, 53 (3). pp. 6 - 24. ISSN: 0149-7677 Open Access Link

Journal article

Mitra, R. and Patel, J. (Accepted) 'Kathak is Always Already Queer: Jaivant Patel Dance and I Am Your Skin (2021)', in Purkayastha, P. and Banerji, A. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance.

Book chapter

Mitra, R. (Accepted) 'A Letter to Nahidji: On Dance as Protest', in Mock, R., Young, H. and de Guevara, VL. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Bodies in Performance.

Book chapter

Bailes, SJ., Hemsley, A., Mitra, R., Shah, R., Stanger, A. and Toussaint-Baptiste, J. (2021) 'Unsettling sound: Some traces'. Theatre Research International, 46 (2). pp. 230 - 245. ISSN: 0307-8833

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Mitra, R. (2021) 'Dancing the Archive Brown, Dancing the Archive Other in Akram Khan's XENOS (2018)'. Contemporary Theatre Review, 31 (1-2). pp. 91 - 112. ISSN: 1048-6801 Open Access Link

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Banerji, A., Mitra, R., Amin, TN., Davis, CU., Mccarthy-Brown, N., Pillai, N., et al. (2021) '"Decolonising Dance Discourses", Special Issue for Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies'. Dance Studies Association.

Scholarly Edition

Mitra, R. (2020) 'Costuming Brownnesses in British South Asian Dance', in Ross, J., Manning, S. and Schneider, R. (eds.) The Futures of Dance Studies. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 471 - 488. ISBN 13: 9780299322403.

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Mitra, R. (2018) 'Talking Politics of Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton'. Dance Research Journal, 50 (3). pp. 6 - 18. ISSN: 0149-7677 Open Access Link

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Mitra, R. (2017) 'Akram Khan on the Politics of Choreographing Touch', in Butterworth, J. and Wildschut, L. (eds.) Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader (2nd Edition). Routledge. pp. 385 - 397.

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Mitra, R. (2017) 'Beyond Fixity: Akram Khan on the Politics of Dancing Heritages', in Morris, G. and Nicholas, L. (eds.) Rethinking Dance History. Routledge. pp. 32 - 43.Open Access Link

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Mitra, R. (2016) 'Training Grounds Editorial'. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 7 (3). pp. 485 - 486. ISSN: 1944-3927

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Mitra, R. (2016) 'Decolonising Immersion: Translation, spectatorship, rasa theory and contemporary British dance'. Performance Research: a journal of the performing arts, 21 (5). pp. 89 - 100. ISSN: 1469-9990 Open Access Link

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Mitra, R. (2016) 'Authorship, Physical Theatre and Justitia', in Johnson, P. and Dobkowska, S. (eds.) Justitia: Multidisciplinary Readings of the Work of Jasmin Vardimon Company. Bristol : Intellect Books. pp. 143 - 154. ISBN 10: 1783205288. ISBN 13: 9781783205288. Open Access Link

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Mitra, R. (2015) 'Book Review of Desi Divas: Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performance by Christine Garlough'. Contemporary Theatre Review, 25 (4). pp. 608 - 609. ISSN: 1477-2264

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Craddock, K., McCaw, D., Mitra, R. and Wilson, T. (2015) 'Training Grounds Editorial'. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 6 (3). pp. 353 - 354. ISSN: 1944-3927

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Mitra, R. (2015) 'Akram Khan: Dancing New Interculturalism'. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 10: 1137393653 ISSN 13: 978-1-137-39365-4

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Mitra, R. (2014) 'The Parting Pelvis: Temporality, Sexuality, and Indian Womanhood in Chandralekha's Sharira (2001)'. Dance Research Journal, 46 (2). pp. 5 - 19. ISSN: 0149-7677 Open Access Link

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Mitra, R. (2014) 'Book Review: The Dance that Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia, by Rachmi Diyah Larasati'. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 37 (1). pp. 185 - 187. ISSN: 0085-6401

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Mitra, R. (2010) 'Performing Cultural Heritage in 'Weaving Paths' by Sonia Sabri Dance Company', in Jackson, A. and Kidd, J. (eds.) Performing Heritage: Research, Practice and Innovation in Museum Theatre and Live Interpretation. university of manchester press. pp. 144 - 157.

Book chapter

Mitra, R. (2010) 'Living a Body Myth, Performing a Body Reality', inThe Feminism and Visual Cultural Reader. Routledge. pp. 560 - 570.

Book chapter

Mitra, R. (2010) 'Dancing Embodiment, Theorising Space: Exploring the ‘Third Space’ in Akram Khan’s zero degrees', in Lepecki, A. (ed.) Planes of Composition: Dance, Theory and the Global. Seagull Books Ltd. pp. 40 - 63.

Book chapter

Mitra, R. (2009) 'Embodiment of Memory and the Diasporic Agent in Akram Khan’s Bahok', in Counsel, C. (ed.) Performance, Embodiment and Cultural Memory. Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 41 - 58.

Book chapter

Mitra, R. (2009) 'Akram Khan Re-writes ‘Radha’: The ‘Hypervisible’ Cultural Identity in Kylie Minogue’s ‘Showgirl’'. Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 19 (1). pp. 23 - 34. ISSN: 0740-770X Open Access Link

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Mitra, R. (2006) 'Living a Body Myth, Performing a Body Reality'. Feminist Review., 84. pp. 67 - 83.

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Mitra, R. (2005) 'Cerebrality: Re-writing Corporeality of a female Indian dancer', in Birringer, J. (ed.) , 15. pp. 167 - 183.

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