Worlding Dance

What world has been constructed for dancing through 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, now in paperback, makes new epistemological space for the analysis of the world's dance by offering a variety of new analytic approaches.

SUSAN LEIGH FOSTER Choreographer and Scholar, is Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, USA. She is author of Reading Dancing, Choreography and Narrative, and Dances that Describe Themselves. She is also editor of Choreographing History and Corporealities, and co-editor of the journal Discourses in Dance.

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Worlding Dance - An Introduction; S.L.Foster
The Power of Classification; L.Hammergren
Mobilizing (in) the Archive: Santee Smith's Kaha:wi; J.S.Murphy
A 'Material'-ist Reading of the Bharata Natyam Dancing Body: The Possibility of the 'Unruly Spectator'; P.Srinivasan
Race-ing Choreographic Copyright; A.Kraut
Choreographies and Choreographers; S.L.Foster
Red-stained Feet: Probing the Ground On Which Women Dance in Contemporary Bengal; A.Chatterjea
Artistic Utopias: Michio Ito and the Trope of the International; Y.Wong
Worlding Dance and Dancing Out There in the World; M.E.Savigliano
Works Cited
Index