A collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. Essays address dance in a wider range of contexts—onstage, on screen, in the studio, and on the street—and deploy methods from diverse disciplines. Engaging African American and African diasporic studies, Latinx and Latin American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and Asian American and Asian studies, this anthology demonstrates the relevance of dance analysis to adjacent fields.

Susan Manning is the Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor at Northwestern University. Janice Ross is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at Stanford University. Rebecca Schneider is a professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University.

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction Susan Manning, Janice Ross, and Rebecca Schneider 3
Archives 15
Kinesthetic Seeing: A Model for Practice-in-Research, Hannah Kosstrin 19
King David in the Medieval Archives: Toward an Archaic Future for Dance Studies, Kathryn Dickason 36
Dancing Dahomey at the World’s Fair: Revising the Archive of African Dance, Joanna Dee Das 56
Critical Memory: Arthur Mitchell, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and the Rise of the Invisible Dancers, Gillian Lipton 74
Breathing Matters: Breath as Dance Knowledge, Laura Karreman 94
Desires 113
Lesbian Echoes in Activism and Writing: Jill Johnston’s Interventions, Clare Croft 117
Accent, Choreomusicality, and Identity in Rodeo and 'Rōdē,ō, Daniel Callahan 135
Flesh Dance: Black Women from Behind, Jasmine Eizabeth Johnson 154
Winin’ through the Violence: Performing Carib[being]ness at the Brooklyn Carnival, Adanna Kai Jones 170
Sites 187
Second Line Choreographies in and beyond New Orleans, Rachel Carrico 191
The Dance in the Museum: Grant Hyde Code and the Brooklyn Museum Dance Center, Amanda Jane Graham 209
Dancing the Image: Virgilio Sieni’s Choreographic Tableaux, Giulia Vittori 226
Sidewalk Choreographies: The Politics of Moving Along in Battery Opera’s Lives Were Around Me, Alana Gerecke 245
Politics 265
Convening Muses and Turning Tables: Reimagining a Danced Politics of Time in Jordan Bennett and Marc Lescarbot, VK Preston 269
Les Ballets Jazz and White Mythologies of Blackness in Québec, Melissa Templeton 286
Cuban Modern Dance after Censorship: A Colorful Gray, 1971–74, Elizabeth Schwall 303
Tango and Memory on the Contemporary Dance Stage, Victoria Fortuna 321
Economics 339
Breaking Point? Flexibility, Pain, and the Calculus of Risk in Neoliberal Multiculturalism, Anusha Kedhar 343
Who Makes a Dance? Studying Infrastructure through a Dance Lens, Sarah Wilbur 360
The Choreographic Commodity: Assigning and Policing Value for Nite Moves and William Forsythe, Lizzie Leopold 380
Walking Backward: Choreographing the Greek Crisis, Natalie Zervou 397
Virtuosities 413
Dance of the Undead: The Wilis’ Imperial Legacy, Rebecca Chaleff 415
Disavowing Virtuosity, Performing Aspiration: Choreographies of Anticlimax in the Work of Yve Laris Cohen, Narcissister, and John Jasperse, Ariel Osterweis 431
Circulations 449
Do Iranian Dancers Need Saving? Savior Spectatorship and the Production of Iranian Dancing Bodies as “Objects of Rescue”, Heather Rastovac-Akbarzadeh 453
Costuming Brownnesses in British South Asian Dance, Royona Mitra 471
Intimating Race: Tao Ye’s 4 and Methods for World Dance, Hentyle Yapp 489
Locating Performance: Choe Seung-hui’s East Asian Modernism and the Case for Area Knowledge in Dance Studies, Emily E. Wilcox 505
Toward a Critical Globalized Humanities: Dance Research in Mexico City at the CENIDID, Jose L. Reynoso 523
Contributors 541
Index 549