Intercultural communication and creative practice : resistance, convergence, and transformation / Laura Lengel -- Voicing the unspoken : "interculturally" connecting race, gender, and nation in women's creative practice / Lliane Loots -- Moving contexts : dance and difference in the Twenty-first century / Ann Cooper Albright -- Creation, recreation, and re-creating identities : performance and interculturality in a global context / Victoria Ann Newsom and Ako Inuzuka -- Dance of the red dog : na wahine kumu hula as protectors of Hawaiian culture / Fay Yokomizo Akindes -- Rudaali (the crier) : performing the music of mourning / Priya Kapoor -- Romanian dirge : women's ritualistic narratives of life and death as cultural constructions of identity in southeastern Europe / Noemi Marin -- The high cost of dancing : when the Indian women's movement went after the Devadasis / Teresa Hubel -- The construction of gender, genre, race, and identity in Barbadian female musicianship / Keri McClean -- Vietnamese women performing artists : making a song and dance of patriarchal submission / Ly Hoang VoDoan -- Marriage customs as creative practice among Yemeni women / E. Margaret Curtis-Howe -- Shifting the performative characteristics of opera and the status quo for women in China / Xiaoyu Xiao and D. Ray Heisey -- Corporeality and discipline of the performing body : representations of international ballet companies / Paige P. Edley and Ginger Bihn -- Man creates, woman plays : (re)claiming the creative process in ballet and opera / Margaret Lindley -- Managing creative practice : an international study of women in arts management / Sharon Foley -- Shifting matriarchal traditions to the mainstream : articulating gender, ethnicity, nation, and identity through creative practice / Laura Lengel.