Contemporary directions in Asian American dance
By: edited by Yutian Wong
Series: Studies in dance history; Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Madison, Wisconsin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780299308704
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Dance; Asian Americans; Asian American dance; Ethnic identity; Asians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Yutian Wong; title: Part I: Dancing citizenship. A new taiko folk dance: San Jose taiko and Asian American movements / Angela K. Ahlgren; title: We should bring our muzukashii / Roko Kawai; title: Asian Canadian dance: cross-cultural currents in Vancouver's Kokoro Dance and Co. ERASGA Dance / Eury Colin Chang; title: "Started in the streets . . .": reality TV, neoliberalism and the performance of Asian American entrepreneurship on America's Best Dance Crew / Brian Su-Jen Chung; title: Part II: Choreographing aesthetics. Mediated meditations: choreographies of Shen Wei and Kun-Yang Lin / Ellen V.P. Gerdes; title: An Asian American land: Eiko & Koma choreograph cultural politics / Rosemary Candelario; title: Ambivalent selves: the Asian female body in contemporary American dance / Maura Nguyen Donohue; title: Afterword / Yutian Wong and Denise Uyehara.