Edited papers from the conference, Foothills and footsteps, held Jan. 1999 at the University of Calgary

Innehåll: The pas de deux of women and handbags / M.J. Thompson. Choreographing queer: nationalism, citizenship, and lesbian dance clubs / B.J. Wray. Blood wedding: tradition and innovation in contemporary flamenco / Michelle Heffner Hayes. Gendered movement in romantic ballet: an analysis of Teresina in Bournonville's Napoli / Kristin M. Harris. Stepping out of attitude: La fanfarlo and autobiography / Sarah Davies Cordova. Reflections on the Aboriginal Dance Program / Marrie Mumford. Lessons in dance (as) history: aboriginal land claims and aboriginal dance, circa 1999 / Jacqueline Shea Murphy. They were singing and dancing in the mountains / Cheryl Blood-(Rides-at-the-)Doore. Ballet in black: Louis Johnson and African-American vernacular humour in ballet / Thomas F. DeFrantz. Melville Herskovits, Katherine Dunham, and the politics of African diasporic dance anthropology / Kate Ramsey. Dance and intertextuality: theoretical reflections / Naomi M. Jackson. Dancing in the Canadian wasteland: a post-colonial reading of regionalism in the 1960s and 1970s / Lisa Doolittle and Anne Flynn.

Includes bibliographical references and index