Rebekah Kowal is Associate Professor of Dance at The University of Iowa where she teaches courses in dance history and theory. Her first book, How to Do Things with Dance: Performing Change in Postwar America (Wesleyan University Press, 2010) investigates how moving bodies are compelling agents of social, cultural and political change. Her current project assesses the impact of postwar global dance performance on American concert dance formations and in the context of U.S. foreign relations, immigration and trade policies, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and citizenship.Gerald Siegmund is Professor of Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany where he teaches courses in theatre and dance history, theory, and aesthetics. He has published widely on contemporary dance and theatre. Amongst his publications are William Forsythe - Denken in Bewegung (Henschel Verlag, 2004) and Dance, Politics, and Co-Immunity (together with Stefan Hölscher, Diaphanes 2013).Randy Martin (1957-2015) was Professor of Art and Public Policy at New York University and founder of the graduate program in arts politics. He published many books as author or editor, including The Financialization of Daily Life and Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor and the Professional Turn; An Empire of Indifference; Critical Moves and On Your Marx. An edited volume is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press: Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies, with Benjamin Lee.

"This book will be useful to those interested in penetrating the physical existence of dance to investigate its significance as a human practice that is political by its very nature." --E. McPherson, Montclair State University, Choice

• 1. Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics - Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and Randy Martin Part I: Dancing Structures Section I. The Political Economy of Dance2. Tracking the Political Economy of Dance - Jane Desmond3. Dance and/as Competition in the U.S. Privately Owned Studio - Susan Foster4. Racing in Place: A Meta-Memoir on Dance, Politics, and Practice - Brenda Dixon Gottschild5. Epiphanic Moments: Dancing Politics - Cynthia Oliver 6. Performing Collectively, Performing Collectivity - Kai van Eikels Section II. The Politics of Choreography7. Urban Choreographies. Artistic Interventions and the Politics of Urban Space - Gabriele Klein 8. The Politics of Speculative Imagination in Contemporary Choreography - Andre Lepecki9. Toward a Choreo-Political Theory of Articulation - Mark Franko10. Rehearsing In-Difference: The Politics of Aesthetics in the Performances of Pina Bausch and Jérôme Bel - Gerald Siegmund11. Problem as a Choreographic and Philosophical Kind of Thought - Bojana Cvejic Section III. The Politics of Embodiment 12. The Politics of Perception - Ann Cooper Albright13. The Politics of Speaking About the Body - Ramsay Burt14. Dancing Disabled: Phenomenology and Embodied Politics - Petra Kuppers15. Of Corporeal Re-writings, Translations, and the Politics of Difference in Dancing - Ananya Chatterjea16. Planning for Death's Surprise: Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham - Peggy Phelan Part 2: Dancing Interventions Section IV. The Politics of Histories 17. Dancing D-Day - Felicia McCarren18. China in the Throes of Modernization: Intercultural Exchange, Hybridity, and ArtsCross - Alexandra Kolb19. Between the Cultural Center and the Villa: Dance, Neoliberalism & Silent Borders in Buenos Aires - Victoria Fortuna20. Modern Dance in the Third Reich, Redux - Susan Manning21. The Micropolitics of Exchange: Rethinking Exile and Otherness after the Nation - Kate Elswit Section V. The Politics of Re-Signification 22. Black Swan, White Nose - Hannah Schwadron23. Brown in Black and White: José Limón Dances The Emperor Jones - James Moreno24. SWITCH: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture - Thomas DeFrantz25. Politics of Fake It! Janez Jansa interviewed by Janez Jansa - Janez Jansa Section VI. The Politics of Re-Negotiation 26. Identity Politics and Political Will: Jeni LeGon Living in a Great Big Way - Nadine George-Graves27. Dancing in the Here and Now: Indigenous Presence and the Contemporary Choreography of Emily Johnson/Catalyst and DANCING EARTH - Jacqueline Shea Murphy28. Dance and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Dance in the Time of Transition - Bojana Kunst29. Domesticating Dance: South Asian Filmic Bodies Negotiating New Moves in Neoliberalism - Priya Srinivasan30. Is it OK to Dance on Graves? Modernism and Socialist Realism Revisited - Jens Giersdorf

Rebekah Kowal is Associate Professor of Dance at The University of Iowa where she teaches courses in dance history and theory. Her first book, How to Do Things with Dance: Performing Change in Postwar America (Wesleyan University Press, 2010) investigates how moving bodies are compelling agents of social, cultural and political change. Her current project assesses the impact of postwar global dance performance on American concert dance formations and in the context of U.S. foreign relations, immigration and trade policies, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and citizenship.Gerald Siegmund is Professor of Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany where he teaches courses in theatre and dance history, theory, and aesthetics. He has published widely on contemporary dance and theatre. Amongst his publications are William Forsythe - Denken in Bewegung (Henschel Verlag, 2004) and Dance, Politics, and Co-Immunity (together with Stefan Hölscher, Diaphanes 2013).Randy Martin (1957-2015) was Professor of Art and Public Policy at New York University and founder of the graduate program in arts politics. He published many books as author or editor, including The Financialization of Daily Life and Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor and the Professional Turn; An Empire of Indifference; Critical Moves and On Your Marx. An edited volume is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press: Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies, with Benjamin Lee.

"This book will be useful to those interested in penetrating the physical existence of dance to investigate its significance as a human practice that is political by its very nature." --E. McPherson, Montclair State University, Choice

• 1. Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics - Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and Randy Martin Part I: Dancing Structures Section I. The Political Economy of Dance2. Tracking the Political Economy of Dance - Jane Desmond3. Dance and/as Competition in the U.S. Privately Owned Studio - Susan Foster4. Racing in Place: A Meta-Memoir on Dance, Politics, and Practice - Brenda Dixon Gottschild5. Epiphanic Moments: Dancing Politics - Cynthia Oliver 6. Performing Collectively, Performing Collectivity - Kai van Eikels Section II. The Politics of Choreography7. Urban Choreographies. Artistic Interventions and the Politics of Urban Space - Gabriele Klein 8. The Politics of Speculative Imagination in Contemporary Choreography - Andre Lepecki9. Toward a Choreo-Political Theory of Articulation - Mark Franko10. Rehearsing In-Difference: The Politics of Aesthetics in the Performances of Pina Bausch and Jérôme Bel - Gerald Siegmund11. Problem as a Choreographic and Philosophical Kind of Thought - Bojana Cvejic Section III. The Politics of Embodiment 12. The Politics of Perception - Ann Cooper Albright13. The Politics of Speaking About the Body - Ramsay Burt14. Dancing Disabled: Phenomenology and Embodied Politics - Petra Kuppers15. Of Corporeal Re-writings, Translations, and the Politics of Difference in Dancing - Ananya Chatterjea16. Planning for Death's Surprise: Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham - Peggy Phelan Part 2: Dancing Interventions Section IV. The Politics of Histories 17. Dancing D-Day - Felicia McCarren18. China in the Throes of Modernization: Intercultural Exchange, Hybridity, and ArtsCross - Alexandra Kolb19. Between the Cultural Center and the Villa: Dance, Neoliberalism & Silent Borders in Buenos Aires - Victoria Fortuna20. Modern Dance in the Third Reich, Redux - Susan Manning21. The Micropolitics of Exchange: Rethinking Exile and Otherness after the Nation - Kate Elswit Section V. The Politics of Re-Signification 22. Black Swan, White Nose - Hannah Schwadron23. Brown in Black and White: José Limón Dances The Emperor Jones - James Moreno24. SWITCH: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture - Thomas DeFrantz25. Politics of Fake It! Janez Jansa interviewed by Janez Jansa - Janez Jansa Section VI. The Politics of Re-Negotiation 26. Identity Politics and Political Will: Jeni LeGon Living in a Great Big Way - Nadine George-Graves27. Dancing in the Here and Now: Indigenous Presence and the Contemporary Choreography of Emily Johnson/Catalyst and DANCING EARTH - Jacqueline Shea Murphy28. Dance and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Dance in the Time of Transition - Bojana Kunst29. Domesticating Dance: South Asian Filmic Bodies Negotiating New Moves in Neoliberalism - Priya Srinivasan30. Is it OK to Dance on Graves? Modernism and Socialist Realism Revisited - Jens Giersdorf

Rebekah Kowal is Associate Professor of Dance at The University of Iowa where she teaches courses in dance history and theory. Her first book, How to Do Things with Dance: Performing Change in Postwar America (Wesleyan University Press, 2010) investigates how moving bodies are compelling agents of social, cultural and political change. Her current project assesses the impact of postwar global dance performance on American concert dance formations and in the context of U.S. foreign relations, immigration and trade policies, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and citizenship.Gerald Siegmund is Professor of Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany where he teaches courses in theatre and dance history, theory, and aesthetics. He has published widely on contemporary dance and theatre. Amongst his publications are William Forsythe - Denken in Bewegung (Henschel Verlag, 2004) and Dance, Politics, and Co-Immunity (together with Stefan Hölscher, Diaphanes 2013).Randy Martin (1957-2015) was Professor of Art and Public Policy at New York University and founder of the graduate program in arts politics. He published many books as author or editor, including The Financialization of Daily Life and Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor and the Professional Turn; An Empire of Indifference; Critical Moves and On Your Marx. An edited volume is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press: Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies, with Benjamin Lee.

"This book will be useful to those interested in penetrating the physical existence of dance to investigate its significance as a human practice that is political by its very nature." --E. McPherson, Montclair State University, Choice

• 1. Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics - Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and Randy Martin Part I: Dancing Structures Section I. The Political Economy of Dance2. Tracking the Political Economy of Dance - Jane Desmond3. Dance and/as Competition in the U.S. Privately Owned Studio - Susan Foster4. Racing in Place: A Meta-Memoir on Dance, Politics, and Practice - Brenda Dixon Gottschild5. Epiphanic Moments: Dancing Politics - Cynthia Oliver 6. Performing Collectively, Performing Collectivity - Kai van Eikels Section II. The Politics of Choreography7. Urban Choreographies. Artistic Interventions and the Politics of Urban Space - Gabriele Klein 8. The Politics of Speculative Imagination in Contemporary Choreography - Andre Lepecki9. Toward a Choreo-Political Theory of Articulation - Mark Franko10. Rehearsing In-Difference: The Politics of Aesthetics in the Performances of Pina Bausch and Jérôme Bel - Gerald Siegmund11. Problem as a Choreographic and Philosophical Kind of Thought - Bojana Cvejic Section III. The Politics of Embodiment 12. The Politics of Perception - Ann Cooper Albright13. The Politics of Speaking About the Body - Ramsay Burt14. Dancing Disabled: Phenomenology and Embodied Politics - Petra Kuppers15. Of Corporeal Re-writings, Translations, and the Politics of Difference in Dancing - Ananya Chatterjea16. Planning for Death's Surprise: Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham - Peggy Phelan Part 2: Dancing Interventions Section IV. The Politics of Histories 17. Dancing D-Day - Felicia McCarren18. China in the Throes of Modernization: Intercultural Exchange, Hybridity, and ArtsCross - Alexandra Kolb19. Between the Cultural Center and the Villa: Dance, Neoliberalism & Silent Borders in Buenos Aires - Victoria Fortuna20. Modern Dance in the Third Reich, Redux - Susan Manning21. The Micropolitics of Exchange: Rethinking Exile and Otherness after the Nation - Kate Elswit Section V. The Politics of Re-Signification 22. Black Swan, White Nose - Hannah Schwadron23. Brown in Black and White: José Limón Dances The Emperor Jones - James Moreno24. SWITCH: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture - Thomas DeFrantz25. Politics of Fake It! Janez Jansa interviewed by Janez Jansa - Janez Jansa Section VI. The Politics of Re-Negotiation 26. Identity Politics and Political Will: Jeni LeGon Living in a Great Big Way - Nadine George-Graves27. Dancing in the Here and Now: Indigenous Presence and the Contemporary Choreography of Emily Johnson/Catalyst and DANCING EARTH - Jacqueline Shea Murphy28. Dance and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Dance in the Time of Transition - Bojana Kunst29. Domesticating Dance: South Asian Filmic Bodies Negotiating New Moves in Neoliberalism - Priya Srinivasan30. Is it OK to Dance on Graves? Modernism and Socialist Realism Revisited - Jens Giersdorf