The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition

Sherril Dodds is Professor of Dance at Temple University. Her research encompasses dance on screen, popular dance, and cultural theory. She is a founding member of the research network PoP MOVES. Her publications include Dance on Screen (Palgrave, 2001), Dancing on the Canon (Palgrave, 2011), and Bodies of Sound (Ashgate, 2013).

INTRODUCTION
Competition Culture: Winning and Losing at Dance
Sherril Dodds

PART I: Economic and Social Currencies of Competition

1. Taking the Cake: Black Dance, Competition, and Value
Nadine George-Graves

2. You've Got to Sell It! Performing on the Dance Competition Stage
Karen Schupp

3. Competitive Capers: Gender, Gentility, and Dancing in Early Modern England
Emily Winerock

4. Endangered Strangers: Tracking Competition in US Federal Dance Funding
Sarah Wilbur

5. Marking Your Territory: The Struggle to Work in Flamenco
Kathy Milazzo

PART II: Re-Choreographing and Re-Presentation for the Competition Frame

6. Re-appropriating Choreographies of Authenticity in Mexico: Competitions and The Dance of the Old Men
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco

7. Above and Beyond the Battle: Virtuosity and Excess within Televised Street Dance Crew Competitions
Laura Robinson

8. Shifting Dynamics: Sean Nós Dancing, Vernacular Expression, and the Competitive Arena of the Oireachtas
Catherine E. Foley

9. Visible Rhythms: Competition in English Tap Practice
Sally Crawford-Shepherd

PART III: Winning, Participation, and the Negotiation of Meaning

10. The International Dancehall Queen Competition: A Discursive Space for Competing Images of Femininity
Celena Monteiro

11. Congratulations, We Wish You Success: Competition and Community Participation in Romanian Dance Festivals
Liz Mellish

12. Non-Competitive Body States: Corporeal Freedom and Innovation in Contemporary Dance
Nalina Wait and Erin Brannigan

13. Reclaiming Competitive Tango: The Rise of Argentina's Campeonato Mundial
Juliet McMains

14. Dance-off or a Battle for the Future: Dance Reality Shows in India
Pallabi Chakravorty

PART IV: Judging, Spectatorship, and the Values of Movement

15. Miss Exotic World: Judging the Neo-Burlesque Movement
Kaitlyn Regehr

16. Rapper Dance Adjudication: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Decision Making
Jeremy Carter-Gordon

17. Dismantling the Genre: Reality Dance Competitions and Layers of Affective Intensification
Elena Benthaus

18. Why Are Breaking Battles Judged? The Rise of International Competitions
Mary Fogarty

19. Not Another Don Quixote! Negotiating China's Position on the International Ballet Stage
Rowan McLelland

PART V: Losing, Failing, and Auto-Critique

20. Dancing with the Asian American Stars: Margaret Cho and the Failure to Win
Yutian Wong

21. Loss of Face: Intimidation, Derision, and Failure in the Hip Hop Battle
Sherril Dodds

22. Making Play Work: Competition, Spectacle, and Intersubjectivity in Hybrid Martial Arts
Janet O'Shea

23. You Can't Out-do Black People: Soul Train, Queer Witnessing, and Pleasurable Competition
Melissa Blanco Borelli

PART VI: Hidden Agendas and Unspoken Rules

24. Freedom to Compete: Neoliberal Contradictions in Gaga Intensives
Meghan Quinlan

25. We'll Rumble 'em Right: Aggression and Play in the Dance-Offs of West Side Story
Ying Zhu and Daniel Belgrad

26. Dancing Like a Man: Competition and Gender in the New Orleans Second Line
Rachel Carrico

27. Man and Money Ready: Challenge Dancing in Antebellum North America
April F. Masten

Afterword: Who is Competing?
Susan Leigh Foster