Futures of Dance Studies.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Archives -- Kinesthetic Seeing: A Model for Practice-in-Research -- King David in the Medieval Archives: Toward an Archaic Future for Dance Studies Kathryn Dickason -- Dancing Dahomey at the World's Fair: Revising the Archive of African Dance Joanna Dee Das -- Critical Memory: Arthur Mitchell, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and the Rise of the Invisible Dancers Gillian Lipton -- Breathing Matters: Breath as Dance Knowledge Laura Karreman -- Desires -- Lesbian Echoes in Activism and Writing: Jill Johnston's Interventions -- Accent, Choreomusicality, and Identity in Rodeo and 'Rōdē,ō -- Flesh Dance: Black Women from Behind -- Winin' through the Violence: Performing Carib[being]ness at the Brooklyn Carnival -- Sites -- Second Line Choreographies in and beyond New Orleans -- The Dance in the Museum: Grant Hyde Code and the Brooklyn Museum Dance Center -- Dancing the Image: Virgilio Sieni's Choreographic Tableaux -- Sidewalk Choreographies: The Politics of Moving Along in Battery Opera's Lives Were Around Me -- Politics -- Convening Muses and Turning Tables: Reimagining a Danced Politics of Time in Jordan Bennett and Marc Lescarbot -- Les Ballets Jazz and White Mythologies of Blackness in Québec -- Cuban Modern Dance after Censorship: A Colorful Gray, 1971-74 -- Tango and Memory on the Contemporary Dance Stage -- Economics -- Breaking Point? Flexibility, Pain, and the Calculus of Risk in Neoliberal Multiculturalism -- Who Makes a Dance? Studying Infrastructure through a Dance Lens -- The Choreographic Commodity: Assigning and Policing Value for Nite Moves and William Forsythe -- Walking Backward: Choreographing the Greek Crisis -- Virtuositie -- Dance of the Undead: The Wilis' Imperial Legacy.

Disavowing Virtuosity, Performing Aspiration: Choreographies of Anticlimax in the Work of Yve Laris Cohen, Narcissister, and John Jasperse -- Circulations -- Do Iranian Dancers Need Saving? Savior Spectatorship and the Production of Iranian Dancing Bodies as "Objects of Rescue" -- Costuming Brownnesses in British South Asian Dance -- Intimating Race: Tao Ye's 4 and Methods for World Dance -- Locating Performance: Choe Seung-hui's East Asian Modernism and the Case for Area Knowledge in Dance Studies -- Toward a Critical Globalized Humanities: Dance Research in Mexico City at the CENIDID -- Contributors -- Index.

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