A long-overdue volume, addressing queer interventions on one of the world's most persuasive and pervasive systems of intercorporeal heteropatriarchy. This collection will be indispensable not only for those interested in queer partner dancing, but for any scholar concerned with the specific mechanisms by which queer embodied practices interact with and challenge heteronormative social formations.

David Kaminsky, University of California, Merced, USA

Queering Partner Dance," edited by Val Meneau and Sydney Hutchinson, is a transformative academic work about embodied ideas. Through a finely curated collection of interdisciplinary essays, the book analyzes how traditional dances such as tango, salsa, swing, and country western can become powerful tools for inclusion and political resistance. The book leaves us with an uncomfortable yet necessary question: are we ready to let go of control, learn, and dance in true equality?

Mercedes Liska, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Queering Partner Dance reminds the reader of the many joyful and transgressive possibilities that emerge when heteronormative conventions of partner dances are disrupted by queer communities and their accompanying practices. Coming from diverse disciplines and employing a range of methodologies, the authors in this important collection also recall the ways that oppressive social contexts can reproduce themselves in queer partner dances as articulated in clubs, films, concert dances, competitions, classrooms, and more. Balancing scholarly rigor and practical engagement with the forms they study, these chapters are sure to be of great interest to anyone with a genuine interest in the ways that queerness moves.

Professor Peter Carpenter, Z. T. Scott Family Chair in Drama, University of Texas at Austin, USA