Overview

What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book endeavours to make new epistemological space for the analysis of the world's dance by offering a variety of new analytic approaches.

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Reviews

'The range of articles makes Foster's collection both methodologically and thematically an invaluable resource far beyond dance, and relevant for anyone in performance and theatre studies wrestling with the complexity of writing history from a global perspective.' - Sabine Sorgel, Aberystwyth University, UK, Theatre Research International

'The range of articles makes Foster's collection both methodologically and thematically an invaluable resource far beyond dance, and relevant for anyone in performance and theatre studies wrestling with the complexity of writing history from a global perspective.' - Sabine Sorgel, Aberystwyth University, UK, Theatre Research International

With this book, Foster continues her leadership in dance scholarship... The variety of approaches and subject matters contained in this volume demonstrates the difficulty of defining dance in a global context. Taken together, the essays make a provocative contribution to the literature. -- CHOICE

Author Information

ANANYA CHATTERJEA Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota, USA, and Artistic Director of Ananya Dance Theatre LENA HAMMERGREN Assistant Professor in Dance Studies at the Department for Musicology and Performance Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at University College of Dance, Stockholm ANTHEA KRAUT Assistant Professor in the Dance Department at the University of California, Riverside, USA MARTA E. SAVIGLIANO Co-director of GLOSAS (Global South Advanced Studies), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Professor Emeritus of University of California Los Angeles' World Arts and Cultures Department, and Visiting Professor at University of California, Riverside's Dance Department JACQUELINE SHEA MURPHY Associate Professor in the Dance Department at the University of California, Riverside, USA PRIYA SRINIVASAN Assistant Professor in Dance at the University of California, Riverside, USA YUTIAN WONG Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies and Dance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

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