This exciting new and original collection locates dance within the spectrum of urban life in late modernity, through a range of theoretical perspectives. It highlights a diversity of dance forms and styles that can be witnessed in and around contemporary urban spaces: from dance halls to raves and the club striptease, from set dancing to ballroom dancing, to hip hop and swing, and to ice dance shows, from the ballet class, to fitness aerobics, and 'art' dance which situates itself in a dynamic relation to the city.