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Document(s) comprises a library of commentary on people and issues in the dance field. The Dance Advance Archives is a repository of interviews and editorials by writers and thinkers on dance, and includes writing commissioned by the program.

• Cambodia •

The Dancer and Cambodian History
by Toni Shapiro-Phim

• India •

Between Temple and Forum: South Asian Dance and the refiguring of cultural identities
by Ranjit Sondhi

Who Remembers Uday Shankar?
By Joan L. Erdman

• Indonesia •

Reinventing Tradition:
New Dance in Indonesia
by Sal Murgiyanto
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Gusmiati Suid and Gumarang Sakti: Moving Forward with Tradition
by Sal Murgiyanto

Letter to a Dancer:
In Memory of Benedictus Suharto

By Sal Murgiyanto

• Japan •

Living with Japanese Ballet History
An interview with Asami Maki, artistic director of Asami Maki Ballet Company and the New National Theater Ballet, Tokyo

by Akiko Tachiki

• United States •

Recovering the Phoenix: Dance, Education, Society & the Politics of Race
By Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Presence : Absence
The search for Isadora Duncan on Kopanos

By Lisa Kraus

The Black Dancing Body -
A Geography From Coon to Cool

By Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Found in Translation
By Arnecia Patterson

Rennie Harris, Philadelphia PA
An interview by Arnecia Patterson

Ron Brown, Brooklyn NY
An interview by Arnecia Patterson

Kevin Ward, Dayton OH
An interview by Arnecia Patterson

Alonzo King: Dancing with the Moon
By Nicole Plett

Migration and Memory:
The Dances of Gertrud Bodenwieser

By Carol Brown

Georgina Parkinson: A dancer in her time/making the blueprint
By Bill Bissell

Georgina Parkinson
An interview conducted by Bill Bissell

Patricia Ruanne
a conversation with a ballet répétiteur
An interview by Bill Bissell
Introduction
Part 1: Keeping Dance
Part 2: Rudolf Nureyev and the Passion for Work

Julie Lincoln, ballet répétiteur
Inhabiting the bodies of others

By Bill Bissell

Arts & Industry, Practice & Policy

Nieuwe Nederlandse dans:
On the Dutch hothouse and the blossoming of dance
by Lisa Kraus

Nieuwe Nederlandse dans:
A Dutch Perspective on American Dance
by Cees de Bever

Digging up the past: Some thoughts about preserving or reconstructing dance works
By Linda Caruso-Haviland

Experimental China-Realizing Tradition
By Danny Yung

實驗中國-實現傳統
榮念曾

Where to Put the Blanket
By Joanna Lesnierowska

GDZIE POŁOŻYĆ KOC?
Joanna Lesnierowska

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mess
By Laurie Fendrich
Posted with permission from the author; originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 June 2005

What Does Dance Heritage and Preservation Have To Do With Cultural Policy?
By Marian A. Godfrey

Beyond Richard Florida: A Cultural Sector of Our Own
By Ann Daly

Defining Your Brand Identity
By Ann Daly

As Seen through the Windshield
(and other perspectives on making dances)

A presentation and town hall discussion for dance makers and cultural practitioners with choreographer Wendy Rogers

Givin’ Props:
Hip Hop, MTV, & Concert Dance
A 2001 Dance Critics Association panel discussion chaired by Robin Hoffman

Artistry in Tap: an Interview with LaVaughn Robinson by Germaine Ingram
Edited by Mary E. Edsall

Dance Discursion: Alonzo King and Nicole Plett in Conversation with the Philadelphia Dance Community

What Dance Has to Say About Beauty
By Ann Daly

Byrne Miller:
A Presenter of Parallel Passions

By Martha Ullman West

Clare Lauché Porter
Traveling with Pointed Shoes: Growing a Dance Community

By Sandra Kurtz

Doris Rudko and the long journey of making dances
by Martha Ullman West

The Six Questions: Acting Technique for Dance Performance
by Daniel Nagrin (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997)
Reviewed by Lynne Conner