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Introduction, Gabriele Brandstetter and Nanako Nakajima Overview of the Aging Body in Dance, Nanako Nakajima Section I: The Aging Body in the late 20th century: American Postmodern Dance, German Dance, and Japanese Dance Yvonne Rainer, The Aching Body in Dance Ramsay Burt, Yvonne Rainer’s Convalescent Dance: On valuing ordinary, everyday, and unidealised bodily states in the context of the aging body in dance Johannes Odenthal, Der Tanz ist eine Metapher des Lebens (Dance is a Metaphor of Life) Tamotsu Watanabe, Flowers Blooming in the Time of Aging 　 Section II: Alternative Dancability: Dis/Ability and Euro-American Performance Ann Cooper Albright, The Perverse Satisfaction of Gravity Jess Curtis, Dancing the Non/Fictional Body Kaite O'Reilly, SILENT RHYTHM: A Reflection on the aging, changing body, and sensory impairment as a source of creativity and inspiration Susanne Foellmer, Bodies' Borderlands: Right in the Middle. Dis/Abilities on Stage 　 Section III: Aging and Body Politics in Contemporary Dance Petra Kuppers, Somatic Politics: Community Dance and Aging Dance Kikuko Toyama, Old, weak, and invalid: dance in inaction Janice Ross, Dance and Aging: Anna Halprin Dancing Eros at the End of Life 　 Section IV: Perspectives of Interweaving Mark Franko, Why are Hands the Last Resort of the Aging Body in Dance? Notes on the Modernist Gesture and the Sublime Nanako Nakajima, Yoshito Ohno’s Figures of Life