Worlding Dance [electronic resource] /
Foster, S.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-204) and index.
The power of classification / Lena Hammergren -- Mobilizing (in) the archive : Santee Smith's Kaha:wi / Jacqueline Shea Murphy -- A "material"-ist reading of the Bharata Natyam dancing body : the possibility of the "unruly spectator" / Priya Srinivasan -- Race-ing choreographic copyright / Anthea Kraut --  Choreographies and choreographers / Susan Leigh Foster -- Red-stained feet : probing the ground on which women dance in contemporary Bengal / Ananya Chatterjea -- Artistic utopias : Michio Ito and the trope of the international / Yutian Wong -- Worlding dance and dancing out there in the world / Marta Elena Savigliano.
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.
Dance.
Dance.