Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific

Stephanie Burridge is a research consultant at LASALLE College of the Arts and Singapore Management University. She was Artistic Director of Canberra Dance Theatre (1978–2001) and was awarded the first Choreographic Fellowship at the Australian Choreographic Centre. She is Series Editor for Routledge anthology collections: Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific, and Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change, co-editor Charlotte Svendler Nielsen, Series Foreword by Sir Ken Robinson. She served as the Research and Documentation Network Co-Chair for WDA Asia Pacific for 15 years and is the recipient of numerous grants for choreography and research from the Australia Council, Arts ACT, NAC Singapore, and Singapore International Foundation.

• Introduction Stephanie BurridgeAustralia1. Shaping the landscapeJill Sykes2. Treading the Pathways – Independent Indigenous danceMarilyn MillerCambodia3. I am a Cambodian Classical Dancer: A personal storyHun Pen 4. Dance education in CambodiaChey Chankethya China5. Concert dance in contemporary China: Crossing borders while maintaining differenceEmily WilcoxHong Kong and the region6. Balancing acts / Decentering exercises: Asia Network for Dance AND + - A network of its place and timeAnna C.Y. Chan and Angela Conquet (Editors), with contributors Jala Adolphus, Anna Cy Chan, Angela Conquet, Kathy Hong, Ophelia Huang, Faith Tan.India7. Imag(in)ing the nation: Uday Shankar’s ‘Kalpana’Urmimala Sarkar8. The beauty myth and beyond: Looking at the Bollywood ‘Item Number’Priyanka BasuIndonesia9. Revealing cultural representation in Indonesian contemporary danceMichael H.B. RadityaMalaysia10. Eclecticism and syncretic traditions: Conceiving Malay social dance in the twentieth centuryMohd Anis Md Nor11. Transnationalism among Malaysian contemporary dance choreographersBilqis Hijjas Philippines12. The foundation of language: New Filipino dance lexicons from Eisa JocsonVanini BelarminoSingapore13. Dancescapism: On dance, young people and choice in the Lion CityPeter Gn 14. Interconnections: An overview of the Singapore contemporary dance scene from1990 to 2020Melissa QuekTaiwan15. Identity, hybridity, diversity: A brief history of dance in TaiwanCHEN Ya-ping 16. Roots and routes of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s Nine SongsLIN YatinThailand17. Reinventing how we move: The Pichet Klunchun Dance Company in the context of contemporary Thai dancePornrat Damrhung and Lowell SkarThe South Pacific 18. Dancing diverse commentaries on wood, sand and concrete: Stories of choreographic collaboration within the South PacificSarah Knox and Rose Martin