Corporeal Politics

“Corporeal Politics makes significant contributions to dance studies by adding in-depth studies of choreographers, dance forms, and dancers largely missing from the Anglophone literature… [and] to Asian and area studies with its close attention to bodies and movement and the knowledge produced by both. Simply put, there is nothing else like this book available.”
—Rosemary Candelario, Texas Woman’s University

"While all the analyzes gathered in it comprehend inner and trans-Asian logics and temporal structuring, this collective project makes a relevant contribution to deepening the field of East Asian dance research, which is to be understood as part of global dance research...In its cross-regional claim, which the book generously reproduces as a dialogue of different characters, periods and genres, it offers the reader parallels and insights into happily unexpected encounters." - rezens.tfm

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"A deft and uncluttered collection of diverse regional views of East Asia through the deployment of scholarly writing that is clear, concise, and directive." —Dance Research Journal

* Dance Research Journal *

"Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia adds great insight and stokes the growing interest in dance in this region. For those interested in dance and East Asian studies, this book is an especially welcome arrival. Captivating and theoretically useful, the chapters correct the lens through which East Asian dance artists and their choreographies have been viewed while bringing attention to current power dynamics and issues that artists today are facing." - Choreographic Practices

* Choreographic Practices *

"Composed of sixteen chapters contained by an introduction and a coda, this anthology emerges from the growing field of East Asian dance research, a previously underrepresented area in Anglophone academia... Drawing both from critical area studies (East Asia) and critical dance studies, Corporeal Politics stresses the politics of East Asian dance." - Dance Chronicle

* Dance Chronicle *

"Essential."
—CHOICE

* CHOICE *

"Rather than only offering a linear perspective, the book paves a diverse path for readers to approach East Asian dance performances with a wide-angle lens. ...Overall, Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia propels many future conversations and concepts that intersect between East Asia and the West."
—Asian Theatre Journal

* Asian Theatre Journal *

"The essays in Corporeal Politics are doing important work by "challenging common patterns of thinking and understanding of dance practices in and from East Asia" (331). More importantly, but troubling the generally accepted historical narrative of critical dance studies it is opening new avenues and introducing new methodologies for future research into dance in and from East Asia."
--Inter-Asia Studies

* Inter-Asia Studies *

"Corporeal Politics breaks new ground in East Asian Dance Studies through its dual contribution to Dance Studies and East Asian Studies. It should be read by anyone interested in dance history, the East Asian region, its rich transregional and transnational cultural histories, and the politics of dance in East Asia and throughout the world."
--International Quarterly for Asian Studies

* International Quarterly for Asian Studi