Rigidigidim de bamba de : a calypso journey from start to ... / Cynthia Oliver -- Tangled roots : Kalenda and other neo-African dances in the circum-Caribbean / Julian Gerstin -- Rumba encounters : transculturation of Cuban rumba in American and European ballrooms / Juliet McMains -- My experience and experiments in Caribbean dance / Ramiro Guerra -- The Africanness of dance in Cuba / Graciela Chao Carbonero -- Secrets under the skin : they brought the essence of Africa / Jill Flanders Crosby -- Haitian migration and danced identity in eastern Cuba / Grete Viddal -- When Jamaica dances : context and content / Cheryl Ryman -- Dance, divas, queens, and kings : dance and culture in Jamaican dancehall / Sonjah Stanley Niaah -- Ghanaian Gome and Jamaican Kumina : West African influences / Isaac Nii Akrong -- Chimin Kwaze : crossing paths, or Haitian dancemaking in Port-au-Prince / Celia Weiss Bambara -- Dance of the Dominican misterios / Martha Ellen Davis -- How to dance son and the style of a Dominican sonero / Xiomarita Pérez -- The drums are calling my name / Nicolás Dumit Estévez -- Contemporary dance in Puerto Rico, or how to speak of these times / Susan Homar -- Bele and quadrille : African and European dimensions in the traditional dances of Dominica, West Indies / Janet Wason -- Helen, heaven and I : in search of a dialogue / Tania Isaac -- Dance in Barbados : reclaiming, preserving, and creating national identities / Susan Harewood and John Hunte -- Big drum dance of Carriacou/ Annette C. Macdonald -- Tradition reaffirming itself in new forms : an overview of Trinidad and Tobago folk dances / Hazel Franco -- A narrative on the framework of the presence, change, and continuity of Indian dance in Trinidad / Ravindra Nath "Raviji" Maharaj.