“THE ARANGETRAM SCENE” TRANSLATION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA by Ramaa Bharadvaj e-mail: angahara-ramaa@yahoo.com Dec 2001 As a member of a new internet group of Indian Dancers in California, I noticed an interest among dance teachers to discuss the practice of arangetram and the paradoxical concerns that this practice raises. This prompted me to revisit a paper that I presented 4 years ago at the Society of Dance History Scholars Conference in Oregon. The following is b