Part One

INTRODUCTION: WHY DANCE HISTORY?

Geraldine Morris and Larraine Nicholas

MEMORY, HISTORY AND THE SENSORY BODY: DANCE, TIME, IDENTITY

Larraine Nicholas

CARA TRANDERS'S REVERIES

By herself

BEYOND FIXITY: AKRAM KHAN ON THE POLITICS OF DANCING HERITAGES

Royona Mitra

AFRICAN-AMERICAN DANCE REVISITED: UNDOING MASTER NARRATIVES IN THE STUDYING AND TEACHING OF DANCE HISTORY

Takiyah Nur Amin

DANCE WORKS, CONCEPTS AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

Anna Pakes

RECONSTRUCTION AND DANCE AS EMBODIED TEXTUAL PRACTICE

Helen Thomas

PRESERVING THE REPERTORY AND EXTENDING THE HERITAGE OF MERCE CUNNINGHAM

Karen Eliot

MAKING DANCE HISTORY LIVE — PERFORMING THE PAST

Henrietta Bannerman

Part Two

INTRODUCTION: RESEARCHING AND WRITING

Geraldine Morris and Larraine Nicholas

DESTABILISING THE DISCIPLINE: CRITICAL DEBATES ABOUT HISTORY AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE STUDY OF DANCE

Alexandra Carter

DECOLONISING DANCE HISTORY

Prarthana Purkayastha

MANY SOURCES, MANY VOICES

Lena Hammergren

‘DREAM NO SMALL DREAMS!’: IMPOSSIBLE IMAGINARIES IN DANCE COMMUNITY ARCHIVING IN A DIGITAL AGE

Astrid von Rosen

WHEN PLACE MATTERS: PROVINCIALIZING THE ‘GLOBAL’

Emily E. Wilcox

CONSIDERING CAUSATION AND CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY: PRACTITIONERS AND PATRONS OF NEW DANCE IN PROGRESSIVE-ERA AMERICA

Linda J. Tomko

‘DANCIN' IN THE STREET’: STREET DANCING ON FILM AND VIDEO FROM FRED ASTAIRE TO MICHAEL JACKSON

Beth Genné

JUDSON: REDUX AND REMIX

Marcia B. Siegel

RUTH PAGE, FEMININE SUBJECTIVITY, AND GENERIC SUBVERSION

Joellen A. Meglin

EXTENSIONS: ALONZO KING AND BALLET’S LINES

Jill Nunes Jensen

GISELLE AND THE GOTHIC: CONTESTING THE ROMANTIC IDEALISATION OF THE WOMAN

Geraldine Morris

About the Author

Geraldine Morris is a Reader in Dance and Programme Leader of the MA in Ballet Studies at the University of Roehampton.

Larraine Nicholas is Honorary Research Fellow in the Dance Department at the University of Roehampton.

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