Omslagets baksida: CORD 40th anniversary conference

Includes bibliographical references.

Immigration of ideas, or how does a camel dance? / Gaby Aldor -- Migratory moves and mobilizing tactics in British contemporary dance / Henrietta Bannerman -- Dance beyond the disquiet of diaspora: Kristin Jackson's aesthetic of independent dancing / Rina Angela Corpus -- A felt authentic grounding: intersecting theories of authenticity and tradition / Jill Flanders Crosby -- Migratory rituals or classical dance forms? "Trance" dance and Bharatanatyam as signifiers of Tamil identity in diasporic Hindu communities in Britain / Ann R. David -- Almée or Salome? Hybrid dances of the East, 1890-1930 / Andrea Deagon -- Moderns and other folk: the National Dance Congress and Festival of 1936 / Ann Dils -- "America is the future": a dance travelogue into the past by Rudolf Laban / Evelyn Doerr -- Rina Nikova and the Yemenite Group: between East and West, North and South / Sari Elron -- Dance migration and Norwegian early fri dans / Anne Margrete Fiskvik -- CEO migrant: the case of Hanya Holm / Claudia Gitelman -- American body pedagogies: somatics and the cultural construction of bodies in the institution of higher education / Jill Green -- Celebrating November 20th: agency and defiance in the construction of memory in Capoeira Angola / Ana Paula Höfling -- Becoming an egg or: migrating body parts in some works by William Forsythe / Stefan Hölscher -- Identity peddlers and the influence of Gertrud Kraus / Judith Brin Ingber -- The inversion of social dance transfers between Europe and the Americas at the turn of the twentieth century / Sophie Jacotot -- José Limón: mentor to native youth / Rosalie M. Daystar/Jones -- Fall and rise: the transference and transformations of a vision of dance / Deborah Jowitt -- Pop tradition in Nigeria: transforming traditional Yoruba Bata performance into a worldly fusion / Debra Klein.

The globalization of Schuhplattler / Alexandra Kolb -- Virtual or real: symbols of migration from the Fouta Djallon / Frederick John Lamp -- Migration and regulation of the female dancing body: Southeast Asian bodies in global circulation / Rachmi Diyah Larasati -- Martha Hill: supporting the creative work of José Limón / Elizabeth McPherson -- Dynamic realities of "traditional" dance: Les Ballets Africains / Michele Moss -- Dancing the American dream: José Limón's war choreography / Stacey Prickett -- Staging the nation: authenticity, authentication, and aauthorityin the Ghana Dance Ensemble / Paul Schauert -- Moving with the times: the Wellington New Dance Group / Marianne Schultz -- Made in Chinatown: bridging cultures and evolving identities in modern dance / Marie Alonzo Snyder -- Prancing babushkas and twirling lawn mowers: dancing the polka down main street / Carrie Stern -- Humphrey and Limón: firsthand observations / Ann Vachon -- Motion/perception: William Forsythe's spectatorial shifts / Freya Vass-Rhee -- Limón's choreography on the shelf / Lucy Venable -- The Budapest Ensemble's Csardas! tango of the East: representational mirrors of traditional music and dance in a postsocialist, postmodern landscape / Jamie Lynn Webster -- Tanac dances and migrations on the Island of Krk, Croatia / Tvrtko Zebec -- 2007 award recipients -- Session overview.