Love Dances

<em>Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration</em> explores global relationality within the realm of<br>intercultural collaboration in contemporary dance. Author SanSan Kwan looks specifically at duets focusing on East West pairings and how dance artists from different cultural and movement backgrounds -Asia the Asian diaspora Europe and the United States; trained in contemporary dance hip hop flamenco Thai classical dance kabuki and butoh - find ways to collaborate. <p/>Kwan acknowledges the forces of dissension prejudice and violence present in any contact zone but ultimately asserts that choreographic invention across difference can be an act of love in the face of loss and serve as a model for difficult imaginative compassionate global affiliation. <em>Love Dances</em> contends that the practice and performance of dance serves as a revelatory site for working across culture. Body-to-body interaction on the stage carries the potential to model everyday encounters across difference in the world.<br>