Winner of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics (2014)

PrefaceIntroduction: Situated DancingI PERFORMANCE WRITINGSPooh Kaye and Eccentric MotionsJohanna BoyceImprovisations by Simone Forti and Pooh KayeSong of LawinoJoseph Homes, Sizzle and HeatPerforming across IdentityIn Dialogue with FirebirdDancing Bodies and the Stories They TellEmbodying History: The New Epic DanceDesire and Control: Performing Bodies in the Age of AIDSII FEMINIST THEORIESMining the Dancefield: Spectacle, Moving Subjects, and Feminist TheoryWriting the Moving Body: Nancy Stark Smith and the HieroglyphsAuto-Body Stories: Blondell Cummings and Autobiography in DanceFemininity with a Vengeance: Strategies of Veiling and Unveiling in Loïe Fuller's Performance of SaloméIII DANCING HISTORIESThe Long Afternoon of a Faun: Reconstruction and Discourse of DesireEmbodying History: Epic Narrative and Cultural Identity in African-American DanceMatters of Tact: Writing History from the Inside OutThe Tanagra Effect: Wrapping the Modern Body in the Folds of Ancient GreeceIV CONTRACT IMPROVISATIONA Particular History: Contact Improvisation at Oberlin CollegeOpen Bodies: (X)changes of Identity in Capoeira and Contact ImprovisationPresent Tense: Contact Improvisation at Twenty-fiveFeeling In and Out: Contact Improvisation and the Politics of EmpathyV PEDAGOGYDancing across Difference: Experience and Identity in the ClassroomChanneling the Other: An Embodied Approach to Teaching across CulturesTraining Bodies to MatterVI OCCASIONAL PIECESThe Mesh in the MessThrough Yours to Mine and Back Again: Reflections on Bodies in MotionPhysical MindfulnessResearching Bodies: The Politics and Poetics of CorporealityStrategic Abilities: Negotiating the Disabled Body in DanceDancing in and out of AfricaRates of ExchangeMoving Contexts: Dance and Difference in the Twenty-first CenturyThree Beginnings and a ManifestoImprovisations as Radical PoliticsSpace and Subjectivity •Strategic PracticesResurrecting the Future: Body/Image/TechnologyFalling... on-screenThe Tensions of Techn : On Heidegger and ScreendanceFallingAfterwordAcknowledgmentsIndex