"The book is carefully constructed...we can learn a lot from it [which] may well be due to its robust empiricism." · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale "This book attempts a much more comprehensive consideration of dance in its cultural, social, and historical contexts than most and the author should be commended not only for this ambitious approach but also for keeping ethnographic method as the foundation of the research... the world of dance scholarship, anthropology, performance studies, and Indonesian studies are the better for this book which is, in important ways, remarkable." · American Ethnologist "This is a valuable addition to the literature on performance in Southeast Asia, on dance history, and on culture change in general ... a very timely and important work ... the quality of its prose, the depth of research involved make it a unique contribution to dance scholarship." · Helene Bouvier, CNRS, Paris Court dance in Java has changed from a colonial...