Simultaneously heartfelt and critical, Love Dances provides a nuanced analysis of intercultural duets. Through vivid and compelling prose, Kwan mobilizes emotion as a means of rethinking collaboration across the divides of race, gender, sexuality, citizenship, age, and ability. In the process, Kwan reframes not only the promises and pitfalls of intercultural collaboration but also the crises of our current economic and political moment.
SanSan Kwan is Associate Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces (2013) and co-editor, with Kenneth Speirs, of Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects (2004). She remains active as a professional dancer and is currently performing with Lenora Lee Dance.