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Contemporary directions in Asian American dance / edited by Yutian Wong.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in dance history (Unnumbered)Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2016Description: viii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780299308742
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.8 C767 23
LOC classification:
  • GV1624.7.A85 C66 2016
Contents:
Introduction / Yutian Wong -- Part I: Dancing citizenship. A new taiko folk dance: San Jose taiko and Asian American movements / Angela K. Ahlgren -- We should bring our muzukashii / Roko Kawai -- Asian Canadian dance: cross-cultural currents in Vancouver's Kokoro Dance and Co. ERASGA Dance / Eury Colin Chang -- "Started in the streets . . .": reality TV, neoliberalism and the performance of Asian American entrepreneurship on America's Best Dance Crew / Brian Su-Jen Chung -- Part II: Choreographing aesthetics. Mediated meditations: choreographies of Shen Wei and Kun-Yang Lin / Ellen V.P. Gerdes -- An Asian American land: Eiko & Koma choreograph cultural politics / Rosemary Candelario -- Ambivalent selves: the Asian female body in contemporary American dance / Maura Nguyen Donohue -- Afterword / Yutian Wong and Denise Uyehara.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Yutian Wong -- Part I: Dancing citizenship. A new taiko folk dance: San Jose taiko and Asian American movements / Angela K. Ahlgren -- We should bring our muzukashii / Roko Kawai -- Asian Canadian dance: cross-cultural currents in Vancouver's Kokoro Dance and Co. ERASGA Dance / Eury Colin Chang -- "Started in the streets . . .": reality TV, neoliberalism and the performance of Asian American entrepreneurship on America's Best Dance Crew / Brian Su-Jen Chung -- Part II: Choreographing aesthetics. Mediated meditations: choreographies of Shen Wei and Kun-Yang Lin / Ellen V.P. Gerdes -- An Asian American land: Eiko & Koma choreograph cultural politics / Rosemary Candelario -- Ambivalent selves: the Asian female body in contemporary American dance / Maura Nguyen Donohue -- Afterword / Yutian Wong and Denise Uyehara.

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