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As performative and political acts, TRANSLATION, INTERVENTION, and PARTICIPATION are movements that take place across, along, and between borders. Such movements traverse geographic boundaries, affect social distinctions, and challenge conceptual categorizations - while shifting and transforming lines of separation themselves. This book brings together choreographers, movement practitioners, and theorists from various fields and disciplines to reflect upon such dynamics of difference. From their individual cultural backgrounds, they ask how these movements affect related fields such as corporeality, perception, (self-)representation, and expression. The book contains contributions about and from: Human, Animal, Thing Shifting Boundaries in Modern and Contemporary Dance by Gabriele Brandstetter Dance as Image - Image as Dance by Jean-Luc Nancy Performing "Africa" Linyekula's Re-vision of 'La création du monde' as Critical Pastiche by Klaus-Peter Köpping The Global Politics of Faustin Linyekula's Dance Theater From Congo to Berlin and Back Again via Brussels and Avignon by Sabine Sörgel "But you know I don't think in words." Bilingualism and Issues of Translation between Signed and Spoken Languages: Working between Deaf and Hearing Cultures in Performance by Kaite O'Reilly A New War on Borders Artistic Movements in Contested Spaces by Sandra Noeth An Artist/Activist Moving (Across) Borders by Faustin Linyekula Indian Idealism The Disenfranchised Body in Yoga, Dance and Urbanity by Navtej Johar Risk Taking Bodies and Their Choreographies of Protest by Cristina Rosa The Archiving Body in Dance The Trajectory of the 'Dance Archive Box' Project by Nanako Nakajima Questions of Participation: Implementing the German Dance Congress as an Artistic, Reflective, and Political Project by Sabine Gehm and Katharina von Wilcke in Dialogue with Holger Hartung "Tea Times" Creating Formats of Informal Exchange and Knowledge Transfer by Christel Weiler Source: Brandstetter, Gabriele/ Holger, Hartung (eds.): Moving (Across) Borders: Performing Translation, Intervention, Participation. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2017), spine and table of contents.