Geraldine Morris is a Reader in Dance and Programme Leader of the MA in Ballet Studies at the University of Roehampton.

Larraine Nicholas is Honorary Research Fellow in the Dance Department at the University of Roehampton.

Part One

INTRODUCTION: WHY DANCE HISTORY?

Geraldine Morris and Larraine Nicholas

1. MEMORY, HISTORY AND THE SENSORY BODY: DANCE, TIME, IDENTITY

Larraine Nicholas

2. CARA TRANDERS'S REVERIES

By herself

3. BEYOND FIXITY: AKRAM KHAN ON THE POLITICS OF DANCING HERITAGES

Royona Mitra

4. AFRICAN-AMERICAN DANCE REVISITED: UNDOING MASTER NARRATIVES IN THE STUDYING AND TEACHING OF DANCE HISTORY

Takiyah Nur Amin

5. DANCE WORKS, CONCEPTS AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

Anna Pakes

6. RECONSTRUCTION AND DANCE AS EMBODIED TEXTUAL PRACTICE

Helen Thomas

7. PRESERVING THE REPERTORY AND EXTENDING THE HERITAGE OF MERCE CUNNINGHAM

Karen Eliot

8. MAKING DANCE HISTORY LIVE - PERFORMING THE PAST

Henrietta Bannerman

Part Two

INTRODUCTION: RESEARCHING AND WRITING

Geraldine Morris and Larraine Nicholas

1. DESTABILISING THE DISCIPLINE: CRITICAL DEBATES ABOUT HISTORY AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE STUDY OF DANCE

Alexandra Carter

2. DECOLONISING DANCE HISTORY

Prarthana Purkayastha

3. MANY SOURCES, MANY VOICES

Lena Hammergren

4. 'DREAM NO SMALL DREAMS!': IMPOSSIBLE IMAGINARIES IN DANCE COMMUNITY ARCHIVING IN A DIGITAL AGE

Astrid von Rosen

5. WHEN PLACE MATTERS: PROVINCIALIZING THE 'GLOBAL'

Emily E. Wilcox

6. CONSIDERING CAUSATION AND CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY: PRACTITIONERS AND PATRONS OF NEW DANCE IN PROGRESSIVE-ERA AMERICA

Linda J. Tomko

7. 'DANCIN' IN THE STREET': STREET DANCING ON FILM AND VIDEO FROM FRED ASTAIRE TO MICHAEL JACKSON

Beth Genné

8. JUDSON: REDUX AND REMIX

Marcia B. Siegel

9. RUTH PAGE, FEMININE SUBJECTIVITY, AND GENERIC SUBVERSION

Joellen A. Meglin

10. EXTENSIONS: ALONZO KING AND BALLET'S LINES

Jill Nunes Jensen

11. GISELLE AND THE GOTHIC: CONTESTING THE ROMANTIC IDEALISATION OF THE WOMAN

Geraldine Morris