Choreographing Asian America

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments - ix Introduction - 1 1 Situating Asian American Dance Studies - 27 2 Club O’ Noodles’s Laughter from the Children of War - 57 3 Rehearsing the Collective: A Performative Autoethnography - 87 Interlude The Amazing Chinese American Acrobat: Choreography as Methodology - 115 4 Mapping Membership: Class, Ethnicity, and the Making of Stories from a Nail Salon - 130 5 Writing Nail Salon - 161 6 Pedagogy of the Scantily Clad: Studying Miss Saigon in the Twenty-first Century - 180 Epilogue - 217 Notes - 225 Bibliography - 241 Index - 261 This page intentionally left blank ...