Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-237) and index.
Contents:
Modernity, post-modernity and the paradigmatic Mudra : corporeal negotiations in the works of Toronto's contemporary Bharatanatyam choreographers / Paromita Kar -- Neighboring in strip city : local conflict and spaces of exotic dance in Portland, Oregon / Moriah McSharry McGrath -- One foot inside the circle : contemporary dance of Los Angeles steps outside postmodernism and into neo-modernism-with-a-twist / Teresa Heiland -- Some dance to remember : the emotional politics of marginality, reinvention, embodied memory, and all that (Cape) jazz / Tamara M. Johnson -- Social dance as social space / Jonathan Skinner -- Mediating the other through dance : geopolitics, social ordering, and meaning-making in American and improvisational tribal style dance / Georgia Connover -- Mimetic moves : dance and learning to learn in northwest Alaska / Matthew Kurtz -- Dance, architecture and space in the making / Frances Bronet -- At home in motion : networks, nodes, and navigation : the varied flight paths of Bird Brain Dance / Katrinka Somdahl-Sands -- Belly dancing in Israel : body, embodiment, religion and nationality / Tovi Fenster.
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