Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Anthropology at Home in the Art Worlds of Dance 1
6. Inventing Strategies, Models, and Methods
7. Shifting Positions 19
8. A Template for Art World Dance Ethnography 29
9. Interview Strategies for Concert Dance World Settings 47
10. The “Why Dance?” Projects 67
11. What Is the Pointe? 85
12. Embodying Autoethnographies
13. Writing, Dancing, Embodied Knowing 101
14. The Body as a Living Archive of Dance/Movement 119
15. Self-Portrait of an Insider 145
16. Relections on Making the Dance Documentary Regular Events of Beauty 159
17. Angelwindow 171
18. Examining Creative Processes and Pedagogies
19. The Montréal Danse Choreographic Research and Development Workshop 191
20. How the Posture of Researcher-Practitioner Serves an Understanding of Choreographic Activity 219
21. A Teacher “Self-Research” Project 233
22. Dance Education and Emotions 255
23. Black Tights and Dance Belts 277
24. The Construction of the Body in Wilfride Piollet’s Classical Dance Classes 305
25. Revealing Choreographies as Cultural and Spiritual Practices
26. Vincent Sekwati Mantsoe 319
27. Anthropophagic Bodies in Flea Market 339
28. The Bridge from Past to Present in Lin Hwai-min’s Nine Songs (1993) 361
29. Revealed by Fire 381
30. Spectres of the Dark 403
31. Not of Themselves 427
32. Theory That Acts like Dancing 445
33. List of Contributors 453
34. Copyright Acknowledgements 461
35. Index 463