Taking the Cake: Black Dance, Competition, and Value / Nadine George-Graves
Congratulations, We Wish You Success: Competition and Community Participation in Romanian Dance Festivals / Liz Mellish
Non-Competitive Body States: Corporeal Freedom and Innovation in Contemporary Dance / Nalina Wait, Erin Brannigan
Reclaiming Competitive Tango: The Rise of Argentina's Campeonato Mundial / Juliet McMains
Dance-off or a Battle for the Future: Dance Reality Shows in India / Pallabi Chakrovorty
Miss Exotic World: Judging the Neo-Burlesque Movement / Kaitlyn Regehr
Rapper Dance Adjudication: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Decision Making / Jeremy Carter-Gordon
Dismantling the Genre: Reality Dance Competitions and Layers of Affective Intensification / Elena Benthaus
Why Are Breaking Battles Judged? The Rise of International Competitions / Mary Fogarty
Not Another Don Quixot! Negotiating China's Position on the International Ballet Stage / Rowan McLelland
Dancing with the Asian American Stars: Margaret Cho and the Failure to Win / Yutian Wong
You've Got to Sell It! Performing on the Dance Competition Stage / Karen Schupp
Loss of Face: Intimidation, Derision, and Failure in the Hip Hop Battle / Sherril Dodds
Making Play Work: Competition, Spectacle, and Intersubjectivity in Hybrid Martial Arts / Janet O'Shea
You Can't Out-do Black People: Soul Train, Queer Witnessing, and Pleasurable Competition / Melissa Blanco Borelli
Freedom to Compete: Neoliberal Contradictions in Gaga Intensives / Meghan Quinlan
We'll Rumble 'em Right: Aggression and Play in the Dance-Offs of West Side Story / Ying Zhu, Daniel Belgrad
Dancing Like a Man: Competition and Gender in the New Orleans Second Line / Rachel Carrico
Man and Money Ready: Challenge Dancing in Antebellum North America / April F. Masten
Afterword / Susan Leigh Foster
Above and Beyond the Battle: Virtuosity and Excess within Televised Street Dance Crew Competitios / Laura Robinson
Introduction: Competition Culture: Winning and Losing at Dance / Sherril Dodds
Competitive Capers: Gender, Gentility, and Dancing in Early Modern England / Emily Winerock
Endangered Strangers: Tracking Competition in US Federal Dance Funding / Sarah Wilbur
Marking Your Territory: The Struggle to Work in Flamenco / Kathy Milazzo
Re-appropriating Choreographies of Authenticity in Mexico: Competitions and The Dance of the Old Men / Ruth Hellier-Tinoco
Shifting Dynamics: Sean Nós Dancing, Vernacular Expression, and the Competitive Arena of the Oireachtas / Catherine Foley
Visible Rhythms: Competition in English Tap Practice / Sally Crawford-Shepherd
The International Dancehall Queen Competition: A Discursive Space for Competing Images of Femininity / Celena Monteiro.