A ground-breaking collection of essays that bring dance into the cultural studies mainstream, exploring the many ways we use our bodies as substantial, vital constituents of cultural reality.
List of illustrations, Contributors biographies, Acknowledgments,
Introduction, 1 The ballerinas phallic pointe, 2
History/theorycriticism/practice, 3 There-turn of the flaneuse, 4 Antique
longings: Genevieve Stebbins and American, Delsartean performance, 5 Dance
and the history of hysteria, 6 Lifelessness in movement, or how do the dead
move? Tracing displacement and disappearance for movement performance, 7
Dancing in the field: notes from memory, 8 Fete Accompli: gender,
folk-dance, and Progressive-era political ideals in New York City, 9
Overreading The Promised Land: towards a narrative of context in dance, 10
Fragments for a story of tango bodies (on Choreocritics and the memory of
power), Bibliography, Index
Susan Foster
