List of Photographs --
Acknowledgements --
Series Editor's Preface --
Introduction: Dancing the City --
Intimacies in Motion --
Corporeal Chronotopes: Making Place and Keeping Time in Ballet --
Saving Khmer Classical Dance in Long Beach --
Dancing Other-Wise: Ethics, Difference and Transcendence in Hae Kyung Lee and Dancers --
Conclusion: Dancing Communities --
Ideas of Order, Queer Intimacies, Civic Infrastructure --
References --
Index.

Dancing Communities is a landmark volume in dance scholarship, and examines performances that create urban communities by blurring, or reinforcing, complex cultural and ethnic boundaries. It argues that amateur and concert dance practices are laboratories for examining the myriad complex intersections of gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity and culture. In the five sites examined here, dance creates small and generative worlds: sometimes havens, sometimes hauntopias. The everyday labors and final products of dance in the global city offer intimacy, solidarity, and communal and cultural continuity for performers and audiences