Contemporary directions in Asian American dance / edited by Yutian Wong. - Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016] - 1 online resource - Studies in dance history . - Studies in dance history (Unnumbered) .

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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Asians--Ethnic identity.--Canada
Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.
Dance--Canada.
Dance--United States.
Asian American dance.
PERFORMING ARTS--Theater--General.
Asian American dance.
Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.
Asians--Ethnic identity.
Dance.


Canada.
United States.


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