Moving Words provides a direct line into the most pressing issues in contemporary dance scholarship, as well as insights into ways in which dance contributes to and creates culture.

Gay Morris is dance and art critic whose work has appeared in numerous journals and periodicals, including Dance Chronicle, ArtNews and Art in America. She teaches dance history at Sonoma State University, California

List of figures, List of contributors, Acknowledgments, 1 Introduction, Part I Strategies, Analytical and Interpretive, Part II The Body and Gender, Part III Histories Reconsidered, Part IV Cultural Crossings, Index