This book discusses the challenges and possibilities of preserving dance in order to keep dances, performances, and choreographers' legacies alive so that the dancers of today and tomorrow can experience and learn from those of the past.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts.

1. Introduction: Preserving Dance Across Time and Space Lynn Matluck Brooks and Joellen A. Meglin Part I: Choreography, the Archives, and Sustaining a Legacy 2. Choreographers' Archives: Three Case Studies in Legacy Preservation Cheryl LaFrance 3. The Choreographer's Trust: Negotiating Authority in Peggy Baker's Archival Project Allana C. Lindgren and Amy Bowring 4. A Bold Step Forward: Genevieve Oswald and the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library Lynn Matluck Brooks 5. The Choreographic Trust: Preserving Dance Legacies Francis Yeoh Part II: Preservation and Creation 6. Gained in Translation: Recreation as Creative Practice Valerie Preston-Dunlop and Lesley-Anne Sayers 7. The Dancing Gaze Across Cultures: Kazuo Ohno's Admiring La Argentina Mark Franko Part III: Preservation in Diaspora 8. Celebrations During a Traditional Wedding on the Island of Rhodes Patricia Riak 9. A Creative Process in Ethiopian-Israeli Dance: Eskesta Dance Theater and Beta Dance Troupe Ruth Eshel 10. Dance and Difference: Toward an Individualization of the Pontian Self Magda Zografou and Stavroula Pipyrou

Lynn Matluck Brooks is the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Humanities Professor of Dance at Franklin & Marshall College, USA. She holds a doctorate from Temple University and is a Certified Movement Analyst and dance historian. She has written for Dance Magazine, edited Dance Research Journal and Dance Chronicle, and authored several books including John Durang: Man of the American Stage (2011).

Joellen A. Meglin is Associate Professor of Dance at Temple University, USA. Her articles have appeared frequently in journals such as Dance Research (UK), Dance Research Journal and Dance Chronicle, and two essays have been published in Studies in Dance History monographs. She has served as coeditor of Dance Chronicle since 2008.