Kate Mattingly is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts at Old Dominion University, USA.

Iyun Ashani Harrison is an associate professor of the practice of dance and head of ballet at Duke University, USA.

Part 1: Identities

1. Teaching for Tomorrow

Gabrielle Salvatto

2. Perspective--Dionne Figgins

3. Perspective-----Lourdes Lopez

4. Native American dancers beyond settler colonial confines

Kate Mattingly

5. Reflections on Quare Dance

Alyah Baker

Part 2: Pedagogies

6. Classical Perspectives: Performance, Pedagogy, and (Changing) Cultures

Anjali Austin

7. Dear Ballet Teachers, Let's Talk About Race

Ilana Goldman and Paige Cunningham

8. Making space - inclusive and equitable teaching practices for ballet in higher education

Alana Isiguen

9. Dismantling anti-Blackness

Maurya Kerr

10. ReCentering the Studio: Ballet Leadership and Learning Through Intersectional and Antiracist Approaches

Renée K. Nicholson and Lisa DeFrank-Cole

11. Credibility and Expertise: Black Women Teaching Classical Ballet

Monica Stephenson

12. Adjusting pedagogies for developing artists: age-appropriate classes for classical ballet Misa Oga

13. Ballet as Artistic, Scientific, and Existential Inquiry: Incorporating Ballet's Broader History in a Syllabus and in the Studio

Jehbreal Muhammad Jackson

14. Dive In

Keesha Beckford)

Part 3: Futurities

15. A willingness to shed

Sidra Bell

16. Honoring the Legacy of Antiracist Ballet Teaching & Leadership in Black and Brown Dance Organizations

Iyun Ashani Harrison

17. Ballet's Ever-Present Presence

Thomas F. DeFrantz

18. Twelve Steps to Ballet's Cultural Recovery

Theresa Ruth Howard

19. Creating New Spaces: Today's Black Choreographers

Brandye Lee

20. Ballet's Futurities--Insights from Choreographers, Scholars, and Educators