This volume provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between bodies, dance and space. Using ten case studies, it illustrates the symbolic power of dance that is crafted by choreographers and acted out by dancers. The book portrays a multitude of ways in which public and private spaces (stages, buildings, town squares as well as natural environments) are transformed and made meaningful by dance. Furthermore, it explores the meaning of dance as emotionally experienced by dancers, and examines how movement in certain spaces creates meaning without the use of words or symbols.

Adam M. Pine is assistant professor of geography and Director of the Urban and Regional Studies program at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Olaf Kuhlkeis associate professor of geography and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Introduction
Olaf Kuhlke and Adam Pine
Chapter 1: Modernity, Post-modernity and the Paradigmatic Mudra: Corporeal Negotiations in the Works of Toronto's
Contemporary Bharatanatyam Choreographers
Paromita Kar
Chapter 2: Neighboring in Strip City: Local Conflict and Spaces of Exotic Dance in Portland, Oregon
Moriah McSharry McGrath
Chapter 3: One Foot Inside the Circle: Contemporary Dance of Los Angeles Steps Outside Postmodernism and into
Neo-Modernism-with-a-Twist
Teresa Heiland
Chapter 4: Some Dance to Remember: The Emotional Politics
of Marginality, Reinvention, Embodied Memory, and
All that (Cape) Jazz
Tamara M. Johnson
Chapter 5: Social Dance as Social Space
Jonathan Skinner
Chapter 6: Mediating the Other through Dance: Geopolitics, Social Ordering, and Meaning-Making in American and Improvisational Tribal Style Dance
Georgia Connover
Chapter 7: Mimetic Moves: Dance and Learning to Learn in
Northwest Alaska
Matthew Kurtz
Chapter 8: Dance, Architecture and Space in the Making
Frances Bronet
Chapter 9: At Home in Motion: Networks, Nodes, and Navigation: The Varied Flight Paths of Bird Brain Dance
Katrinka Somdahl-Sands
Chapter 10:Belly Dancing in Israel: Body, Embodiment, Religion and Nationality
Tovi Fenste
Conclusion
Adam Pine and Olaf Kuhlke