Women, Dance and Revolution

Rosemary Martin trained at the New Zealand School of Dance, Wellington and was subsequently a member of the Royal New Zealand Ballet. She performed in Australia, London, Canada and Japan. She has extensive experience in research and teaching in the Middle East and has taught at Cairo Modern Dance Company; El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe; the Jordanian National Dance Center; and the Lebanese American University. She is the co-author (with Nicholas Rose and Ralph Buck) of Talking Dance: Contemporary Histories from the Southern Mediterranean (2013).

CONTENTS
List of illustrations

Chapter 1. Introduction: Meeting dancers, making stories, meaning making

PART ONE: “WHY CAN’T I DANCE IN THE STREETS?”
Chapter 2. Politics and performance entwine: Hala’s story
Chapter 3. Surveillance weaving through body, mind and performance: Mey’s story
Chapter 4. Occupation, to occupy and to be occupied: Nadia’s story

PART TWO: “ARE THESE BORDERS MAKING ME MORE CREATIVE?”
Chapter 5. Breaking boundaries and borders of dance: Noora’s story
Chapter 6. Freedom inside and outside dance: Rania’s story
Chapter 7. Censorship choreographed, propaganda performed: Dalia El Abd’s story

PART THREE: “BEING A FEMALE CONTEMPORARY DANCER… AND BY THE WAY, I’M ARAB, IS
THAT A PROBLEM?”

Chapter 8. The female dancing body in the Arab world: Dalia Naous’ story
Chapter 9. Society and the struggles of the dancer: Nadra’s story
Chapter 10. Conclusion: Dreaming for the future
Bibliography
Index