Asian and South Asian Dance in US Postsecondary Dance Education
Over the last few years, deep political, social, and racial fissures have surfaced in the United States that necessitate a need to discuss the role that dance and its associated discourses play in academia. As more and more Asian and South Asian dance forms, dancers, and students populate the dance studios of US academia, it is time that dance education confront the racist, sexist, ableist, and colonial modes that are embedded in the way that this transition often takes place, especially as instances of racial violence are on the rise. The cost of inclusion should not be an erasure where much of the plurality, difference, and fluidity of content and pedagogy¬–aspects that make these forms valuable to dance education–are lost. This collection of articles considers what this inclusion implies and the shifts engendered by this diversity of movement pedagogy in the understanding of dance education and its outcomes. New articles will be added as they are available.
Edited by
Professor Aadya Kaktikar(Department of Arts and Performing Arts, Shiv Nadar University)
Professor Karen Schupp(School of Music, Dance and Theatre, Arizona State University)