1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific Platforms for Change
Introduction
Stephanie Burridge
Australia
1. Shaping the landscape
Jill Sykes
2. Treading the Pathways – Independent Indigenous dance
Marilyn Miller
Cambodia
3. I am a Cambodian Classical Dancer: A personal story
Hun Pen
4. Dance education in Cambodia
Chey Chankethya
China
5. Concert dance in contemporary China: Crossing borders while maintaining difference
Emily Wilcox
Hong Kong and the region
6. Balancing acts / Decentering exercises: Asia Network for Dance AND + - A network of its place and time
Anna C.Y. Chan and Angela Conquet (Editors), with contributors Jala Adolphus, Anna Cy Chan, Angela Conquet, Kathy Hong, Ophelia Huang, Faith Tan.
India
7. Imag(in)ing the nation: Uday Shankar’s ‘Kalpana’
Urmimala Sarkar
8. The beauty myth and beyond: Looking at the Bollywood ‘Item Number’
Priyanka Basu
Indonesia
9. Revealing cultural representation in Indonesian contemporary dance
Michael H.B. Raditya
Malaysia
10. Eclecticism and syncretic traditions: Conceiving Malay social dance in the twentieth century
Mohd Anis Md Nor
11. Transnationalism among Malaysian contemporary dance choreographers
Bilqis Hijjas
Philippines
12. The foundation of language: New Filipino dance lexicons from Eisa Jocson
Vanini Belarmino
Singapore
13. Dancescapism: On dance, young people and choice in the Lion City
Peter Gn
14. Interconnections: An overview of the Singapore contemporary dance scene from1990 to 2020
Melissa Quek
Taiwan
15. Identity, hybridity, diversity: A brief history of dance in Taiwan
CHEN Ya-ping
16. Roots and routes of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s Nine Songs
LIN Yatin
Thailand
17. Reinventing how we move: The Pichet Klunchun Dance Company in the context of contemporary Thai dance
Pornrat Damrhung and Lowell Skar
The South Pacific
18. Dancing diverse commentaries on wood, sand and concrete: Stories of choreographic collaboration within the South Pacific
Sarah Knox and Rose Martin
Biography
Stephanie Burridge is a research consultant at LASALLE College of the Arts and Singapore Management University. She was Artistic Director of Canberra Dance Theatre (1978–2001) and was awarded the first Choreographic Fellowship at the Australian Choreographic Centre. She is Series Editor for Routledge anthology collections: Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific, and Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change, co-editor Charlotte Svendler Nielsen, Series Foreword by Sir Ken Robinson. She served as the Research and Documentation Network Co-Chair for WDA Asia Pacific for 15 years and is the recipient of numerous grants for choreography and research from the Australia Council, Arts ACT, NAC Singapore, and Singapore International Foundation.
