An important modern exponent of Asian dance, Pandit Chitresh Das brought kathak to the United States in 1970.
The North Indian classical dance has since become an important art form within the greater Indian diaspora.
Yet its adoption outside of India raises questions about what happens to artistic practices when we separate them from their broader cultural contexts.
A Guru's Journey provides an ethnographic study of the dance form in the San Francisco Bay Area community formed by D.
University Of Illinois Press A guru's journey: pandit chitresh das and indian classical dance in diaspora, paperback/sarah morelli
