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Abstract:This article critically engages with Maya K Rao's Khol Do (Take It Off), as a dance-theatre performance of pain and empathy through which the notion of being and becoming is contested. This nonverbal performance, revolving around one of the stories written by Saadat Hasan Manto that is based on the atrocities occurred during the India-Pakistan partition, is about a man in search of her daughter, only to find her as a victim of gang-rape. The article examines Rao's conscious choice of portraying the role of the father to construct the performance of pain/empathy, through her use of embodied dance/theatre practice of kathakali. Building on the theoretical frameworks of Marla Carlson on empathy and Phillip Zarrilli on being-doing, the article attempts to understand how it displaces the empathy derived out of violated body of a woman and connects to contemporary debates on sexual violence by reinterpreting and inverting the kathakali codes.
摘要:本文批判性地探讨了玛雅·拉奥(Maya K Rao)的《脱下》(Khol Do)，作为一场关于痛苦和同理心的舞蹈戏剧表演，通过它，存在和成为的概念受到了质疑。这个非语言表演围绕着Saadat Hasan Manto写的一个故事展开，这个故事是基于印巴分治期间发生的暴行，讲述了一个男人寻找她的女儿，却发现她是轮奸的受害者。本文通过对卡塔卡里舞蹈/戏剧实践的运用，考察了饶有意识地选择塑造父亲的角色来构建痛苦/同理心的表现。本文以Marla Carlson关于同理心的理论框架和Phillip Zarrilli关于作为的理论框架为基础，试图理解它是如何取代从女性被侵犯的身体中产生的同理心的，并通过重新解释和颠倒卡塔卡里代码与当代关于性暴力的辩论联系起来。
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