Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface to the second edition -- PART 1 Why dance history? -- Introduction to Part 1: why dance history? -- 1 Memory, history and the sensory body: dance, time, identity -- 2 Cara tranders's reveries: the Autobiography of Cara Tranders, Ballet Girl at the Empire Palace of Varieties, 1892-99 -- 3 Beyond fixity: Akram Khan on the politics of dancing heritages -- 4 African-American dance revisited: undoing master narratives in the studying and teaching of dance history -- 5 Dance works, concepts and historiography -- 6 Reconstruction and dance as embodied textual practice -- 7 Preserving the repertory and extending the heritage of Merce Cunningham -- 8 Making dance history live - performing the past -- PART 2 Researching and writing -- Introduction to Part 2: researching and writing -- 9 Destabilising the discipline: critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance -- 10 Decolonising dance history -- 11 Many sources, many voices -- 12 'Dream no small dreams!': impossible archival imaginaries in dance community archiving in a digital age -- 13 When place matters: provincializing the 'global' -- 14 Considering causation and conditions of possibility: practitioners and patrons of new dance in progressive-era America -- 15 'Dancin' in the street': street dancing on film and video from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson -- 16 Judson: redux and remix -- 17 Ruth page, feminine subjectivity, and generic subversion -- 18 Extensions: Alonzo King and Ballet's LINES -- 19 Giselle and the Gothic: contesting the Romantic idealisation of the woman -- Index