Aesthetic of african music and dance revisited / Modesto Amegago -- Crossing the borders in dance education research: implications of the notion of child culture for research and practice in dance education / Eeva Anttila -- Dancing across the page: representing research findings from interviews and journal entries / Karen N. Barbour -- My dance, my voice: Phoenix LBGTQ youth / Lindsey Bauer -- Snake symbolism in rarámuri (tarahumara) dances: an analytical bridge linking northwestern Mexico, Mesoamerica, and the southwestern United States / Carli Bonfiglioli -- Folklórico dance in Texas: digital access and preservation / Wade Carter and Elizabeth Rhodes -- "The beautiful, the exotic -" emic and etic in the stage names of belly dancers / Andrea Deagon -- Constructing world dance studies for the 21st century / Joan L. Erdman -- Parameters of perception: vision, audition, and twentieth-century music and dance / Allen Fogelsanger and Kathleya Afanador -- Politics of knowledge: east-western relations in the anthropology of dance / Georgiana Gore and Andrée Grau -- Somatics in the academy: the body and institutional authority / Jill Green -- Bodily knowledge and feelings as a source and means in a creative process: a special focus on Alma Hawkin's work / Soili Hämäläinen -- Swan, the third meaning / Jung Hwan Jae -- Making a korean ballet, Shim Chung: the pursuit of universality through nationality / Ok Hee Jeong -- Ethical issues in researching other people's lives: everyday life in dance institutions / Teija Löytönen -- Feminist subjectivity: the role of the spectator and performer in dance research / Vesna Milanovic -- Eguchi's dance creation method influenced by Wigman's "Gestaltung" / Akiko Nikaido -- Dwight Rhoden's Before Now and After Then: perspectives on a community collaboration / Mary Barres Riggs and Robert Daniel Riggs -- The Pilates method as a somatic practice / Leena Rouhiainen -- Dance scholarship in Mexico / Nancy Lee Ruyter -- The culture of dance competitions / Karen Schupp -- Moving like a ball of twine: editing a overview of caribbean dance / Susanna Sloat -- Body story: an historical and analytical examination of Balanchine's choreographic periods / Amy Lynn Stoddart -- Integrating dance and cognitive science: toward emancipatory research / Freya Vass-Rhee -- The meeting of two disciplines: eastern traditions and western choreography / Rosa Vissers -- Contemporary practices in american protestant dance / Emily R. Wright.