TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamera, Judith
AU  - Hamera, Judith
TI  - Dancing communities:  : performance, difference, and connection in the global city
T2  - Studies in international performance
SN  - 9781349279432
U1  - 306.484 HAM 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Basingstoke [England] ; New York 
PB  - : Palgrave Macmillian
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Culture & institutions
KW  - Dance -- Social aspects
KW  - Communication -- Social aspects
KW  - Performing arts -- Social aspects
N1  - 	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
N2  - 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
ER  -