Audience: Text for dance majors and choreographers; reference for dance educators and dance scholars.

Sherry B. Shapiro, EdD, is director of women's studies at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she is a full professor in the department of dance and theatre. She is the author of three books and numerous articles on critical and feminist approaches to dance pedagogy and the body in contemporary culture. Sherry has been the keynote speaker at national and international conferences advocating the role of arts education in encouraging a concern for social justice and human rights. She also has received awards for her research and artistic work, as well as her work as a dance educator, including the University Dance Educator of the Year Award in 1999, presented by the Dance Association of North Carolina Educators. She has served on many boards and committees, including as president for the Dance Association of North Carolina Educators.

Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I. Dance as Cultural Memory: Challenging Globalization
Chapter 1. Stepping Into Footprints: Tradition and the Globalization of Irish Dance
Michael Seaver
Chapter 2. The Quest for Preserving and Representing National Identity
Ivan?ica Jankovi?
Chapter 3. Dance Inna Dancehall: Dance in Jamaican Dancehall and Its Roots in Traditional Lore and Contemporary Developments
Christopher A. Walker

Part II. Politics of Belonging: Disrupting the Norms
Chapter 4. Writing in the Flesh: Body, Identity, Disability, and Difference
LA-A?Acia Matos
Chapter 5. When Boys Dance: Cultural Resistance and Male Privilege in Dance Education
Doug Risner
Chapter 6. Acts of Love Under a Southern Moon
Lynn Maree

Part III. Conversations on Dance for a Multicultural World
Chapter 7. Common Experience Creates Magnitudes of Meaning
Ann Kipling Brown
Chapter 8. Dialogical Pedagogy, Embodied Knowledge, and Meaningful Learning
Eeva Anttila
Chapter 9. Transferable Theory: Researching Movement Concepts in Different Cultural Contexts
Shu-Ying Liu

Part IV. Transcending Differences: The Commonalities of Dance
Chapter 10. My Body, My Life, and Dance
Adrienne Sansom
Chapter 11. Holds No Memory: A Proposition as a Way to a Proposal About Dance Through Dance
Ana SA-A?Anchez-Colberg with Efva Lilja
Chapter 12. Dance in a World of Change: A Vision for Global Aesthetics and Universal Ethics
Sherry B. Shapiro

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Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors