SanSan Kwan

SanSan Kwan

Berkeley Book Chats

Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration (Oxford, 2021) explores global relationality and intercultural collaboration in contemporary dance. SanSan Kwan (Theater, Dance & Performance Studies) looks specifically at duets, focusing on "East/West" pairings.

She explores how dance artists from different cultural backgrounds (Asia, the Asian diaspora, Europe, and the United States) and representing a variety of forms and traditions of movement (contemporary dance, hip hop, flamenco, Thai classical dance, kabuki, and butoh) find ways to collaborate.

Kwan is joined by Sima Belmar (TDPS).