GATRODI implemented fieldwork in India, and more specifically in the Indian State of Odisha, from the beginning of the project on 01/07/2021. Participants were free to cooperate or opt out at any time of the study. The main methodology consisted of classic ethnographic methods, which comprise observation and interviews of the individuals involved into Odissi dance in this geographical context. Some of the documentation produced has generated audio and/or video files.
The field-work undertaken generated fieldnotes, interviews, audio- and video-recordings. These were submitted to a work of visioning and interpretation, enabling the production of a detailed ethnographic account of the transmission of Odissi dance, and notably, of the ways in which women are engaged in it and implement their teaching activities.
SUMMARY OF PROMINENT OUTCOMES:
• Documentation of the state of Odissi dance activity in the early 2020ies in Odisha, India, the gendered dimensions of its spatial, social, economic organisation. Characterisation and analysis of the current relational dynamics prevailing in the networks of the dance, and, with reference to earlier investigations,of the effect of recent structural changes on its transmission.
• Analysis, based on ethnographic data, of the factors that impact women's teaching activities.
• Analysis, based on ethnographic data, of how the many modalities of knowing and/or know-how observed in the transmission of the dance are connected with inequalities.
• Production of detailed analyses of the ways in which a social order is maintained in classroom situations, through both verbal and non verbal actions.
GATRODI is communicating about the results in all forms, in seminars, in conferences, and through publications, to both scientific and non scientific audiences.
