Conference papers from proceedings held Mar. 7-10, 2005, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Dept. of Dance.

"2005 Congress on Research & Dance proceedings, Cultural activism & the dancing body. This volume of Spring 2005 CORD proceedings ... on the relationship between dancing bodies and their subsequent effect on the creation of community."--Page 7.

Includes bibliographical references.

Dance in healthcare: a lecture-demonstration / Rusti Brandman, Jill Sonke-Henderson -- Lingering lights from America's Black Broadway: Negro Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, African American concert-theatrical dance in Washington, D.C. / Tamara L. Brown -- Modern Dance humanism and the State Department's agenda: raising U.S. status in the world community during the Cold War / Melinda Copel -- Henry Ford's dance crusade: a choreographed social agenda / Corrie Franz Cowart -- The semiotics of quadrille dancing in the Eastern Caribbean / Dominique O. Cyrille -- Taking contemporary dance into Eastern European communities / Marilyn Danitz -- Invisible communities or blind scholars?: critical issues in American liturgical dance / Kent De Spain -- Dance in the concentration camps: meaning and survival / Terri Filips -- Expanding the boundaries of art and life: the impact of a community dance program on college students / Mary Fitzgerald -- Time, thyme and reason: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, UBW, and rap music as voices of liberation in the 1980s / James Time Frazier -- African contemporary dance in global/US markets: expanding the contemporary community (a lecture/film presentation; and live performance by Lacina Coulibaly, Co-Artistic Director of Kongo Ba Téria) / Joan Frosch -- Dance, power, and the creation of national community in Malawian politics / Lisa Gilman -- African dance/music are no longer oral traditions / Doris Green -- Dance as a form of thought: the problem of exclusiveness and intricacy / Suzanne Jaeger -- Ballet's rite of passage: performing process in 21st century concert dance / Jill Nunes Jensen -- Emerald gold: Irish dance tradition and its post-Riverdance global identity / Nancy Kane -- Site dance: a deconstruction/reconstruction of community and place -- Melanie Kloetzel -- Reclaiming the past: narrative in Donald McKayle's Rainbow 'round my shoulder and Tally Beatty's Mourner's bench / Rebekah J. Kowal -- Sirens: performance technology, community dance and disability embodiment / Petra Kuppers -- Site-specific dance, de-familiarization and the transformation of place and community / Camille LeFevre -- Country and western dancing: its importance to the gay and lesbian community of greater Houston, Texas / Harriet R. Lihs -- Broadcasting race in Canada: Len Gibson's Bamboula (1954) / Allana Lindgren -- Dance is a piece of my soul! representations of dance among youngsters of African cultural background / Ana Macara -- Let's go to the hp: community values in televised teen dance programs of the 1950s and early 1960s / Julie Malnig -- Encounters across cultures and communities: El Grupo Cultural Uk'Ux Pop Wuj de Maya and the Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble / Andrea Mantell-Seidel -- Igede dance pedagogy / Robert Nicholls -- Calypso's moving geographies / Cynthia M. Oliver -- On meaning and connecting with community in the Black modern dance context / Carl Paris -- Into the community: site-specific dance artists as activists / Carolyn Pavlik -- Barred from life: building community through collaboration / David J. Popalisky -- Unveiling invisible chains / Stephanie Powell -- Hanya Holm, community, and dance as "genuine folk culture" / Tresa M. Randall -- Black Indians, Zulus and Congos: transformation and transference of community traditions in New Orleans and Panama / Elizabeth Rhodes -- Dance, digital communities, and ethnographic research / Barbara Sellers-Young -- From a woman's point of view: the transmission of Nangiar Koothu in Kerala, South India / Deirdre Sklar -- Library without walls: the George Washington Project / Sally Sommer, Tricia Young, Anthony Chow -- Trends in contemporary modern dance / Jennifer Tsukayama -- "One day at a time": designing and implementing a movement-based healing program for prostituted women / Whitney Tucker.