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SUSAN LEIGH FOSTER is Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. She is author of Reading Dancing, Choreography and Narrative, and Dances that Describe Themselves. She is also editor of Choreographing History and Corporealities, and co-editor of the journal Discourses in Dance.

What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book endeavours to make new epistemological space for the analysis of the world's dance by offering a variety of new analytic approaches.