Yutian Wong is an associate professor in the School of Theatre and Dance at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Choreographing Asian America.

A methodologically diverse and eclectic approach to Asian American dance studies, where dance is both method and content. These essays illuminate the ways that dance shapes, troubles, and pushes against the contours of what counts as Asian American cultural production.""- Priya Srinivasan, author of Sweating Saris""Confirms the vibrant and diverse presence of contemporary Asian American dance on the stage and in the world. This fresh new scholarship inspires us all to consider the strategies and achievements of generations of artists and researchers working at the intersection of Asian American studies and dance studies. An absolute must for anyone concerned with the future of dance scholarship.""- Thomas F. DeFrantz, editor of Dancing Many Drums""A methodologically diverse and eclectic approach to Asian American dance studies, where dance is both method and content. These essays illuminate the ways that dance shapes, troubles, and pushes against the contours of what counts as Asian American cultural production."" - Priya Srinivasan, author of Sweating Saris""Confirms the vibrant and diverse presence of contemporary Asian American dance on the stage and in the world. This fresh new scholarship inspires us all to consider the strategies and achievements of generations of artists and researchers working at the intersection of Asian American studies and dance studies. An absolute must for anyone concerned with the future of dance scholarship."" - Thomas F. DeFrantz, editor of Dancing Many Drums

• Preface and Acknowledgments IntroductionYutian WongPart I: Dancing Citizenship1. A New Taiko Folk Dance: San Jose Taiko and Asian American MovementsAngela K. Ahlgren2. We Should Bring Our MuzukashiiRoko Kawai3. Asian Canadian Dance: Cross-Cultural Currents in Vancouver's Kokoro Dance and Co.ERASGA DanceEury Colin Chang4. ""Started in the Streets . . ."": Reality TV, Neoliberalism and the Performance of Asian American Entrepreneurship on America's Best Dance Crew, Season 1Brian Su-Jen ChungPart II: Choreographing Aesthetics5. Mediated Meditations: Choreographies of Shen Wei and Kun-Yang LinEllen V. P. Gerdes6. An Asian American Land: Eiko & Koma Choreograph Cultural Politics Rosemary Candelario7. Ambivalent Selves: The Asian Female Body in Contemporary American Dance Maura Nguyen DonohueAfterword   Yutian Wong and Denise UyeharaBibliography  ContributorsIndex