Global Movements

Olaf Kuhlke is associate professor of geography and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota Duluth.Adam M. Pine is assistant professor of geography and director of the Urban and Regional Studies Program at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

• Introduction, Olaf Kuhlke and Adam M. PineChapter 1: Cultural Survival as a Geographic Paradox: The Case of Flamenco, Yuko AoyamaChapter 2: Irishness and Step Dancing in Newfoundland and Labrador, Kristin Harris WalshChapter 3: Dancing in Foam City: Berlin and the Viscous Embodiment of German National Identity at the Love Parade, 1989-2006, Olaf KuhlkeChapter 4: Human Kind in the Apex of Borders: Artistic and Expressive Communication in Projected Images, Dance, and Narrative, Mary Lynn Babcock and Lynnette Young OverbyChapter 5: Tango: A Cognitive Companionship from the Street to the Classroom, France JoyalChapter 6: Salsa Cosmopolitanism: Situating the Dancing Body as Part of the Global Cosmopolitan Project, Adam M. PineChapter 7: From Streetlights to Stagelights to Cyberity and Back: Dance in (Geographic) Space, Carla Walter and Steve SmithConclusion: Valorizing the Many Different Spaces of Dance: Co-opting the Cultural Choreography of Globalization, Adam M. Pine and Olaf Kuhlke

This book underscores the fact that dance is a geography and geography is a dance. By cross-pollinating the two disciplines, the authors produce a third wondrous hybrid. Their book is compulsory reading for all those who want to understand the place of dance.