The Myth of an International Dance Language: Tensions between
Internationalisation and Cultural Difference  Stock, Cheryl F.
(2001) The Myth of an International Dance Language: Tensions
between Internationalisation and Cultural Difference. In
Burridge, Stephanie (Ed.) Asia Pacific Dance Bridge: Academic
Conference, 2001, Singapore.   This paper asks a number of
questions about how we, as dance practitioners, can value and
maintain cultural diversity in a homogenised world. How can we
effectively engage in a globalised world in which
internationalisation seems in many ways to be interchangeable
with Westernisation and still retain cultural specificity? In
terms of the dance world are ballet and contemporary dance
international languages or another form of cultural colonialism
and expansion? Are they being superseded? What influences are at
work within the dancing body and beyond the dancing body in
shaping our current dance identities and our dance languages?
What is the place of dance and dancing in an inform