What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book endeavours to make new epistemological space for the analysis of the world's dance by offering a variety of new analytic approaches.

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 Theatre
LENA 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, Stockholm
ANTHEA KRAUT Assistant Professor in the Dance Department at the University of California, Riverside, USA
MARTA 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 Department
JACQUELINE SHEA MURPHY Associate Professor in the Dance Department at the University of California, Riverside, USA
PRIYA SRINIVASAN Assistant Professor in Dance at the University of California, Riverside, USA
YUTIAN 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