Funny Moves

Marta E. Savigliano is Professor Emerita of Critical Dance Studies, Dance Department, University of California, Riverside and of Culture and Performance, World Arts and Cultures Department, University of California Los Angeles. She is the author of Tango and the Political Economy of Passion, Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation and of numerous articles. She received the Dance Studies Association Outstanding Scholarly Research in Dance Award (2024). Hannah Schwadron is Associate Professor of Dance, School of Dance, Florida State University. She is the author of The Case of the Sexy Jewess: Dance, Gender, and Jewish Joke-Work in US Pop Culture and various published essays. She received the de la Torre Bueno Prize for Best First Book (2018).

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Funny Moves, The Other to Dance
Marta E. Savigliano and Hannah Schwadron

Part 1: Funny Dancing, Formally

1. "Now is the Time. Come, Come!": Unpacking Gender, Caste, and Humor in Bharatanatyam Performances of Eroticism
Anusha Kedhar

2. Burla y Bulla: Humor and Critique in Flamenco
Michelle Heffner Hayes

3. Insolent Tangos
Marta E. Savigliano,

Part 2: She Who Laughs Last Dances

4. StoryTAILS of a Wounded Sister
Adanna K. Jones

5. Gendering Angry Fun: Sensual Improprieties in Shamin Ara's Urdu Action Film
Esha Niyogi De

Part 3: Vamping Onto White Film

6. Chaplin's Border Moves and My Own: Dance and Humor in the Tijuana-San Diego Region
Minerva Tapia

7. Un/funny Business in On the Town (1949)
Anthea Kraut

Part 4: Dancing Funny Otherwise

8. Sincerely Funny or Funny Sincerity: Avatar: The Last Airbender and Cosplay Choreographies
Yutian Wong

9. Shi Jokes, Ugly Dancing: Funny Moves in Al-Hakawati's Anticolonial Museum
Hannah Schwadron

10. Transfeminine Joking on Argentina's Bailando por un Sueño
Jeffrey Tobin

Index