Table of Contents
Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada
Acknowledgements
Introduction / Allana C. Lindgren and Batia Boe Stolar
Section One: Setting the Stage
1. Dancing Pluralism in Canada: A Brief Historical Overview / Allana C. Lindgren
Section Two: The Discourses of Pluralism
2. Embodying the Canadian Mosaic: The Great West Canadian Folk Dance, Folk Song, and Handicraft Festival, 1930 / Anne Flynn
3. Olé, eh?: Canadian Multicultural Discourses and Atlantic Canadian Flamenco / Batia Boe Stolar
4. Illuminating a Disparate Diaspora: Fijian Dance in Canada / Evadne Kelly
5. Ukrainian Theatrical Dance on the Island: Speaking Back to National and Provincial Images of Multicultural Cape Breton / Marcia Ostashewski
6. Zab Maboungou: Trance and Locating the Other / Bridget E. Cauthery
Section Three: Identity Formation and Artistic Agency
7. A Contemporary Global Artist’s Perspective / Hari Krishnan
8. Re-imagining the Multicultural Citizen: ‘Folk’ as Strategy in the Japanese Canadians’ 1977 Centennial National Odori Concert / Lisa Doolittle
9. Dance as a Curatorial Practice: Performing Moving Dragon’s Koong at the Royal Ontario Museum / Allana C. Lindgren
10. Kinetic Crossroads: Chouinard, Sinha and Castello / Dena Davida
Section Four: Education and the Processes of Normalization
11. From Inclusion to Integration: Intercultural Dialogue and Contemporary University Dance Education / Danielle Robinson and Eloisa Domenici
12. A Dance Flash Mob, Canadian Multiculturalism, and Kinesthetic Groupness / Janelle Joseph
13. Contemporary Indigenous Dance in Canada / Carolyne Clare and Samantha Mehra in conversation with Santee Smith
14. “There Is the Me That Loves to Dance”: Dancing Cultural Identities in Theatre for Young Audiences / Heather Fitzsimmons Frey
Section Five: Building Coalitions / Belonging to Communities
15. The Presence and Future of Danish Folk Dancing in Canada / Suzanne Jaeger
16. Glimpses of a Cultural Entrepreneur / Yasmina Ramzy in conversation with P. Megan Andrews
17. Dance and the Fulfillment of Multicultural Desire: The Reflections of an Accidental Ukrainian / Steven Jobbitt
18. Old Roads, New World: Exploring Collaboration through Kathak and Flamenco / Catalina Fellay
Contributors
Index
