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.

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