Geographies of Dance (eBook)

Adam M. Pine is assistant professor of geography and Director of the Urban and Regional Studies program at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Olaf Kuhlke is associate professor of geography and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Introduction Olaf Kuhlke and Adam PineChapter 1: Modernity, Post-modernity and the Paradigmatic Mudra: Corporeal Negotiations in the Works of Toronto's Contemporary Bharatanatyam ChoreographersParomita KarChapter 2: Neighboring in Strip City: Local Conflict and Spaces of Exotic Dance in Portland, OregonMoriah McSharry McGrathChapter 3: One Foot Inside the Circle: Contemporary Dance of Los Angeles Steps Outside Postmodernism and into Neo-Modernism-with-a-TwistTeresa HeilandChapter 4: Some Dance to Remember: The Emotional Politics of Marginality, Reinvention, Embodied Memory, and All that (Cape) Jazz Tamara M. JohnsonChapter 5: Social Dance as Social SpaceJonathan SkinnerChapter 6: Mediating the Other through Dance: Geopolitics, Social Ordering, and Meaning-Making in American and Improvisational Tribal Style DanceGeorgia ConnoverChapter 7: Mimetic Moves: Dance and Learning to Learn in Northwest AlaskaMatthew KurtzChapter 8: Dance, Architecture and Space in the MakingFrances BronetChapter 9: At Home in Motion: Networks, Nodes, and Navigation: The Varied Flight Paths of Bird Brain DanceKatrinka Somdahl-SandsChapter 10:Belly Dancing in Israel: Body, Embodiment, Religion and NationalityTovi FensteConclusionAdam Pine and Olaf Kuhlke