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This essay is concerned with the practical and theoretical application of discipline to understand the contours of Asian American dance . Using both literal and conceptual definitions of discipline, Wong considers how Asian American dance is made into an academic discipline vis-à-vis a series of expectations shaped by academic discourse and physical practice. Wong performs multivalent readings of Kimi Okada ’s I look vacantly at the Pacific … with regret and Lenora Lee ’s Passages as a case study to examine the disciplinary expectations and investments that make dance and dance studies into an object-of-analysis. By engaging with material histories of place, popular representation, choreographic analysis, ethnography, and the politics of working in local and abstract terms Wong maps the range of bodily and intellectual disciplining that are at work in producing an interdisciplinary dance analysis not as a singular product, but a series of overlapping and simultaneous tasks that serve different institutional purposes and disciplinary investments.
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Wong, Y. (2016). Discipline and Asian American Dance. In: DeFrantz, T., Rothfield, P. (eds) Choreography and Corporeality. New World Choreographies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54653-1_14
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