The Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific : Platforms for Change (Paperback)

?1. Shaping the landscape ?2. Treading the Pathways ? Independent Indigenous dance? 3. I am a Cambodian Classical Dancer: A personal story ?4. Dance education in Cambodia ?5. Concert dance in contemporary China: Crossing borders while maintaining difference ?6. Balancing acts / Decentering exercises: Asia Network for Dance AND + - A network of its place and time ?7. Imag(in)ing the nation: Uday Shankar’s ‘Kalpana’ ?8. The beauty myth and beyond: Looking at the Bollywood ‘Item Number’ ?9. Revealing cultural representation in Indonesian contemporary dance ?10. Eclecticism and syncretic traditions: Conceiving Malay social dance in the twentieth century ?11. Transnationalism among Malaysian contemporary dance choreographers ?12. The foundation of language: New Filipino dance lexicons from Eisa Jocson ?13. Dancescapism: On dance, young people and choice in the Lion City ?14. Interconnections: An overview of the Singapore contemporary dance scene from1990 to 2020? 15. Identity, hybridity, diversity: A brief history of dance in Taiwan ?16. Roots and routes of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s Nine Songs ?17. Reinventing how we move: The Pichet Klunchun Dance Company in the context of contemporary Thai dance ?18. Dancing diverse commentaries on wood, sand and concrete: Stories of choreographic collaboration within the South Pacific