What came before the heartbreak (a fable) / Mayfield Brooks -- The future histories of black dance / Thomas F. Defranz -- Somewhen Else / Maura Nguyen Donohue -- A history of dancing / Keith Hennessy -- This is how dancing happens / Bebe Miller -- Entangled / Okwui Okpokowasili -- Letters / Eiko Otake -- Dancing is living / Annie-B Parson -- Storming with two-spirits / Javier Stell-Frésquez -- Watch me / Ogemdi Ude -- Dear reader / Mariana Valencia -- Bring your folks / Andros Zins-Browne.

"Authored by twelve diverse American dance artists in the form of twelve small booklets, Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Studyapproaches and celebrates dance history as a subjective, artistic inquiry. It reimagines and radicalizes our understanding of dance throughout human history through the voices of working choreographers. Simultaneously, the project is dedicated to the power of an artist-centric view of history itself, thus placing the dance history back into the body, where it began. Here, history occurs in vertical layers of time and space and moves into the street, the football field, the yard, the screen, the memory, the womb, the sky, and the future." -- Utgivarens hemsida.