Global Movements

Global Movements is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between global mobility and dance. It includes chapters from geographers, dance historians, and other humanities scholars and examines how the diffusion of global cultures has impacted dance and given new meaning to the everyday spaces where dance occurs.

Introduction, Olaf Kuhlke and Adam M. Pine Chapter 1: Cultural Survival as a Geographic Paradox: The Case of Flamenco, Yuko Aoyama Chapter 2: Irishness and Step Dancing in Newfoundland and Labrador, Kristin Harris Walsh Chapter 3: Dancing in Foam City: Berlin and the Viscous Embodiment of German National Identity at the Love Parade, 1989-2006, Olaf Kuhlke Chapter 4: Human Kind in the Apex of Borders: Artistic and Expressive Communication in Projected Images, Dance, and Narrative, Mary Lynn Babcock and Lynnette Young Overby Chapter 5: Tango: A Cognitive Companionship from the Street to the Classroom, France Joyal Chapter 6: Salsa Cosmopolitanism: Situating the Dancing Body as Part of the Global Cosmopolitan Project, Adam M. Pine Chapter 7: From Streetlights to Stagelights to Cyberity and Back: Dance in (Geographic) Space, Carla Walter and Steve Smith Conclusion: Valorizing the Many Different Spaces of Dance: Co-opting the Cultural Choreography of Globalization, Adam M. Pine and Olaf Kuhlke