This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies. It covers a range of dance works, artists, genres, and media, from Kathak to K-pop flash mob dance, Cold War diplomacy to avant-garde dance collaborations, and festival dance to dance on screen.

Introduction 1. "Gangnam Style" in Dhaka and inter-Asian refraction 2. Performing Bandung: China's dance diplomacy with India, Indonesia, and Burma, 1953-1962 3. Choreographing neutrality: dance in Cambodia's Cold War diplomacy in Asia, 1953-1970 4. Geographies of the classical: Kathak across India and Hong Kong 5. Inter-Asian dance as method, artistic research as method: Nam Hwayeon's work on Choi Seung-hee 6. The aesthetics of intercultural method: from process to procession in new Indonesian and Indo-Australian dance 7. Bharatanatyam and Buddhist diplomacy: inter-Asia significations in Santha Bhaskar's Anweshana: The Search for Nalanda 8. "The nightingale is a graceful dancer": Bulbul Chowdhury, dance heritage, and the new nation-state of Pakistan 9. Dancers in the Japanese entertainment troupe of comfort in the 1940s: traveling along the Burma-China frontline 10. Dancing me from South to South: on Wu-Kang Chen and Pichet Klunchun's intercultural performance 11. Japanese dancers, Bollywood dance: finding authenticity at Tokyo's Namaste India Festival 12. Multicultural dance-making in Singapore: Merdeka, youth solidarity and cross-ethnicity, 1955-1980s