HEAT AND ALTERITY IN CONTEMPORARY DANCE: SOUTH-SOUTH CHOREOGRAPHIES by Ananya Chatterjea. 2020. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 305 pp. $89.99 hardcover. ISBN: 978-3-030-43912-8. $69.99 e-book. ISBN 978-3-030-43912-5

On a macroscopic scale, dance is very much a product of the era in which it is produced and performed. [...]in this unprecedented period, artists are finding new meaning in their practices. While the term intrinsically seems to imply a relationship with time, Chatterjea perceives time as one of many considerations in contemporary dance today, explaining, “Periodizing structures … do not live as water-tight compartments: they are always contingent upon an overlapping series of factors” (114). Chatterjea's Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance: South-South Choreographies is a necessary call to action during this significant period of art making, suggesting that “we all enter contemporary, innovation, experimentation, conceptual versus representational, and other concepts and debates in dance-making from our particular contextual lens” (271).