Embodied recuperations : performance, indigeneity, and danza Azteca / Elisa Diana Huerta -- The Zapopan dancers : reinventing an indigenous line of descent / Renée de la Torre Castellanos -- La feria de enero : rethinking gender in a ritual festival / Xóchitl C. Chávez -- Dancing to "Whittier Boulevard" : choreographing social identity / Marie "Keta" Miranda -- Creating agency and identity in danza Azteca / María Teresa Ceseña -- The semiotics of land and place : matachines dancing in Laredo, Texas / Norma E. Cantú -- Dancing to the heights : performing Zapotec identity, aesthetics, and religiosity / Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez -- Traditional dances of the Sierra Norte of Puebla : identity and gender relations / Alberto Zárate Rosales -- ¿Por qué estás aquí? : dancing through history, identity, and the politics of place in Butoh ritual mexicano / Shakina Nayfack -- El baile de los elotes : the corn dance / José Sánchez Jiménez -- The matachines danza as intercultural discourse / Brenda M. Romero -- The Ballet Folklórico de México and the construction of the Mexican nation through dance / Sydney Hutchinson -- Dancing culture : a personal perspective on folklórico / Rudy F. García -- The Mexican danzón : restrained sensuality / Susan Cashion -- Gender as a theme in the modern dance choreography of Barro Rojo / Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter -- Staging authenticity : theorizing the development of Mexican folklórico dance / Olga Nájera-Ramírez -- Dance, politics, and cultural tourism in Oaxaca's Guelaguetza / Chris Goertzen -- Bailando para San Lorenzo : Nuevo Mexicano popular traditional musics, ritual contexts, and dancing during Bernalillo fiesta time / Peter J. García -- Folklórico in the United States : cultural preservation and disillusion / Russell Rodríguez -- Zapateado Afro-Chicana fandango style : self-reflective moments in zapateado / Martha González.