This book examines the globalization of belly dance and the distinct dancing communities that have evolved from it. The history of belly dance has taken place w

In these essays, dancers and scholars from around the world carefully consider the transformation of an improvised folk form from North Africa and the Middle Ea

This is the first volume devoted to the topic of dance and quality of life. Thirty-one chapters illuminate dance in relation to singular and overlapping themes

This book is about the folk: the folk in folk dance, the folk in folklore, the folk in folk wisdom. When we see folk dance on the stage or in a tourist setting,

Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada explores how dance intersects with the shifting concerns of pluralism in a variety of racial and ethnic communiti