Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices (Series)

Published by the University of Michigan Press on behalf of the Dance Studies Association

Founded in 1988, Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices aims to further the goals of the Dance Studies Association by making widely available the extraordinarily rich and diverse scholarship that takes dance as its subject. Ranging from new methods of historical inquiry to multiple theoretical perspectives on dancing, dancers, and dances in a global context, each volume in the series is accessible to specialists and laypeople alike.

Series Editorial Board
SanSan Kwan, Series Editor

Editorial Board
Aimee Cox, Associate Editor
Anurima Banerji
Ojeya Cruz Banks
Mariama Diagne
Cindy Garcia
Anthea Kraut
Crystal Song, Editorial Fellow

Please send queries and proposals to SanSan Kwan, sansankwan@berkeley.edu.

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Grounding Practice

Dancing Haiti on Tè Glise

By Dasha A. Chapman
Subjects: Dance, Caribbean Studies, African Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

The worldmaking potential of Haitian folkloric dance

Dissenting Through Dance

Folk Dance, Gender, and Political Protest in Turkey

By Sevi Bayraktar
Subjects: Dance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

How femme activists transform folk dance to a potent form of resistance in Turkey

Dancing on the Fault Lines of History

Selected Essays

By Susan Manning
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Encapsulating a career of studying modern dance

Performing the Greek Crisis

Navigating National Identity in the Age of Austerity

By Natalie Zervou
Subjects: Dance, History, European History
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Examining how changes in dance amid the Greek financial crisis altered perceptions and discourses of Greece’s culture and national identity

Kinethic California

Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships

By Naomi Macalalad Bragin
Subjects: Dance, Cultural Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Explores the making of black social and vernacular dance in the 1970s, precursor to today’s global hip hop/streetdance culture

Inhabiting the Impossible

Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico

Edited by Susan Homar & nibia pastrana santiago
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Artists and scholars celebrate the development, diversity, and ethics of Puerto Rican experimental dance

The Body in Crisis

New Pathways and Short Circuits in Representation

Foreword by Cristina Fernandes Rosa, Translated by Christopher Larkosh and Grace Holleran

By Christine Greiner
Translated by Christopher Larkosh & Grace Holleran
Contributions by Cristina Fernandes Rosa
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Dance, Philosophy
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

A major theoretical work by Brazilian dance scholar Christine Greiner explores the political relevance of bodily arts in the age of neoliberal globalization

Corporeal Politics

Dancing East Asia

Edited by Katherine Mezur & Emily Wilcox
Subjects: Dance, Asian Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

The political power of performing bodies

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