Dancing the pain of others / Gary Aldor -- The performance of vulnerability: implications for human rights / Valerie A. Briginshaw -- The uphill climb to an even playing field: connecting Western concert dance to human rights / Jennifer Fisher -- Community dance: a vehicle for cultural emancipation / Mary Fitzgerald -- We will meet again in Petersburg / Jessica Fogel -- Banning the dance: Egypt in 1834 / Kathleen Wittick Fraser -- African dance/music are no longer oral traditions / Doris Green -- Collaboration as a practice of equality: June Watanabe's translation/transformation of Japanese Noh in contemporary practice / Judy Halebsky -- Choreographing otherness: from fighters to peacekeepers / Deborah Heifetz-Yahav -- Dancing despite the scourge: Jewish dancers during the holocaust / Judith Brin Ingber -- German dance, German dancers, Nazi politics and human rights / Marion Kant -- Contemporary politics and the 1925 Turkish ban on whirling dervishes / Kelly Knox -- Dancing the power of the younger brother: theatre of the hare in Guinea, West Africa / Frederick John Lamp -- Civil War to Civil Rights: a lesson in humanity / Diane B. McGhee -- Place, memory and exile / Vesna Milanovic -- Une idée fixe?: "culture" and choreographic practice / Séonagh Odhiambo -- Dance embrace and theories talk: a conversation between two aesthetics, Humphrey and Kenya Luo dance / Séonagh Odhiambo -- Footprints of invisible histories: Zaccho Dance Theatre's politically engaged art and community activism / Stacey Prickett -- Libido and confusion: dancing the megalopolis / Sheila Ribeiro/dona orpheline -- Caging the ineffable: trance dance repression and rape / Kristin Robinson -- Abstract: Tikkun Olam: to repair the world / Douglas Rosenberg -- Politics of the body and politics of the soul: dance and facism in Portugal / Luisa Roubaud -- Dance in a conflict: bridges or boycotts and barriers? / Nicholas Rowe -- Mexico City 1986: dance in the street / Nancy Lee Ruyter -- The children of Milagro and the circle of light / Mary Lee Sanders -- Remembering, expressing and transforming: the interactions between movement, images, etno and environment in psychosocial work with war-affected refugee children / Allison Jane Singer -- Unveiling the bamboo: borrowing traditional elements to express cultural oppression in modern dance choreography / Marie Alonzo Snyder -- Dance of the oppressed body: samba and hybridity in Brazil / Alba Pedreira Vieira -- Women in black: the ongoing work of an evolving ritual / Eleanor Weisman and Jan Hyatt -- The socially constructed adolescent body: community dance, empowerment and change / Elizabeth W. Young.