Dance and science in the long nineteenth century : the articulate body /
Bringing together dance and science, two paradigms that explore the nature and possibilities of the body, this volume illuminates the meanings and articulations of dance in nineteenth-century societies. This global collection of studies reveals how the two fields informed each other's developme...
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Meeting points, overlaps, escapes / Lynn Matluck Brooks, in conversation with Sariel Golomb and Garth Grimball
- Part I. Learning how to look: regimes of classification
- Venus in pieces: choreographing the anatomical body with Clemente Susini's Venus dé Medici / Sariel Golomb
- Response essay: choreographies of knowledge: touch and vision in anatomical looking / Jane Desmond
- Science under the surface: Victorian science in the Ballet Ondine / Steven Ha
- Phytology and dance: the impact of plant biology on Nineteenth-Century Flower Ballets / Alexander H. Schwan
- Response essay (for chapters 3 and 4): new sensations / Whitney Laemmli
- Part II. Dancing Ideologies: nation, sexuality, sciencing
- Dr. Louis Véron, medical philosophy, and medical practice at the Paris Opera / Elizabeth Claire
- Response essay: imagination, sensation, and habits: medical rhetoric and popular literature in perceptions of the Paris Opera / Olivia Sabee
- The paradox of the subtle body: dance, tantra, and science / Pallabi Chakravorty
- Response essay: viewing Indian dance across time and space / Tiziana Leucci
- Exhibiting (Scientific) grace: American Delsartism and Black Citizenship in the New South / Carrie Streeter
- Response essay: interrupting Jim Crow / Susan C. Cook
- Part III. Physical cultures: disciplining and improving the self
- The muscular sense and therapeutic modernism in the eurythmics of ́Emile Jaques-Dalcroze / Andrea Harris
- Response essay: dualism in Jaques-Dalcroze's Theory of Movement / Dick McCaw
- From animal magnetism to materialist transcendentalism: Margaret Fuller on Fanny Elssler / Johanna Pitetti-Heil
- Response essay: Labor and laboratory of Kinesic Interplay in Nineteenth-Century Dance Theory / Claudia Jeschke
- Hypnotic dancing and the science of sleep and dreams: The controversial case of Madeleine G. / Chantal Frankenbach
- Response essay: ecstatic Fervors: of trance, dance and self-possession / Kélina Gotman
- The depths from the surface: interlaced histories of technologies and dance in the Nineteenth Century / Janice Ross
- Response essay: movement-machines: reflecting new technologies in doing and scoring dancing / Claudia Jeschke
- Part IV. "Outro".
- Observing the observers / Emily Coates
- Response essay: querying the cosmos / Christian DuComb