Geographies of Dance: Body, Movement, and Corporeal Negotiations

Contents

• Introduction Olaf Kuhlke and Adam Pine
• Chapter 1 : Modernity, Post-modernity and the Paradigmatic Mudra: Corporeal Negotiations in the Works of Toronto's Contemporary Bharatanatyam Choreographers Paromita Kar
• Chapter 2 : Neighboring in Strip City: Local Conflict and Spaces of Exotic Dance in Portland, Oregon Moriah McSharry McGrath
• Chapter 3 : One Foot Inside the Circle: Contemporary Dance of Los Angeles Steps Outside Postmodernism and into Neo-Modernism-with-a-Twist Teresa Heiland
• Chapter 4 : Some Dance to Remember: The Emotional Politics of Marginality, Reinvention, Embodied Memory, and All that (Cape) Jazz Tamara M. Johnson
• Chapter 5 : Social Dance as Social Space Jonathan Skinner
• Chapter 6 : Mediating the Other through Dance: Geopolitics, Social Ordering, and Meaning-Making in American and Improvisational Tribal Style Dance Georgia Connover
• Chapter 7 : Mimetic Moves: Dance and Learning to Learn in Northwest Alaska Matthew Kurtz
• Chapter 8 : Dance, Architecture and Space in the Making Frances Bronet
• Chapter 9 : At Home in Motion: Networks, Nodes, and Navigation: The Varied Flight Paths of Bird Brain Dance Katrinka Somdahl-Sands
• Chapter 10 :Belly Dancing in Israel: Body, Embodiment, Religion and Nationality Tovi Fenste
• Conclusion Adam Pine and Olaf Kuhlke