Worlding Dance

ANANYA CHATTERJEA Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota, USA, and Artistic Director of Ananya Dance TheatreLENA HAMMERGREN Assistant Professor in Dance Studies at the Department for Musicology and Performance Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at University College of Dance, StockholmANTHEA KRAUT Assistant Professor in the Dance Department at the University of California, Riverside, USAMARTA E. SAVIGLIANO Co-director of GLOSAS (Global South Advanced Studies), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Professor Emeritus of University of California Los Angeles' World Arts and Cultures Department, and Visiting Professor at University of California, Riverside's Dance DepartmentJACQUELINE SHEA MURPHY Associate Professor in the Dance Department at the University of California, Riverside, USAPRIYA SRINIVASAN Assistant Professor in Dance at the University of California, Riverside, USAYUTIAN WONG Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies and Dance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Worlding Dance – An Introduction; S.L.Foster The Power of Classification; L.Hammergren Mobilizing (in) the Archive: Santee Smith's Kaha:wi ; J.S.Murphy A "Material"-ist Reading of the Bharata Natyam Dancing Body: The Possibility of the "Unruly Spectator"; P.Srinivasan Race-ing Choreographic Copyright; A.Kraut Choreographies and Choreographers; S.L.Foster Red-stained Feet: Probing the Ground On Which Women Dance in Contemporary Bengal; A.Chatterjea Artistic Utopias: Michio Ito and the Trope of the International; Y.Wong Worlding Dance and Dancing Out There in the World; M.E.Savigliano Works Cited Index

'The range of articles makes Foster's collection both methodologically and thematically an invaluable resource far beyond dance, and relevant for anyone in performance and theatre studies wrestling with the complexity of writing history from a global perspective.' - Sabine Sorgel, Aberystwyth University, UK, Theatre Research International