Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intertextual narratives in dance analysis / Janet Landsdale -- Betraying history? : an historiographic analysis of The Judas tree (1992) / Alexandra Carter -- Unbalancing the authentic/partnering classicism : Shobana Jeyasingh's choreography and the Bharata Natyam "tradition" / Janet O'Shea -- Akram Khan's ma (2004) : an essay in hybridisation and productive ambiguity / Lorna Sanders -- Elusive narratives : Mats Ek / Giannandrea Poesio -- On the premises of French contemporary dance : concepts, collectivity and "Trojan horses" in the work of Jérôme Bel and Loïc Touzé / Toni D'Amelio -- Chasing voices : Ian Spink's dancing Fugue (1988) / Janet Lansdale -- Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion's Both sitting duet (2002) : a discursive choreomusical collaboration / Daniela Perazzo Domm -- Lea Anderson, dancing and drawing the past into the present / Henia Rottenberg -- Mad hot ballroom and the politics of transformation / Sherril Dodds -- Mapping the multifarious : the genrification of dance music club cultures / Joanna Louise Hall -- Harpies and pyjamas : the making of Heart thief (2003) / Deveril.