Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Meeting Points, Overlaps, Escapes 1 Lynn Matluck Brooks, in conversation with Sariel Golomb and Garth Grimball Part I. Learning How to Look: Regimes of Classification 1. Venus in Pieces: Choreographing the Anatomical Body with Clemente Susini's Venus de' Medici 21 Sariel Golomb 2. Choreographies of Knowledge: Touch and Vision in Anatomical Looking; Response to "Venus in Pieces: Choreographing the Anatomical Body with Clemente Susini's Venus de' Medici" by Sariel Golomb 45 Jane Desmond 3. Science under the Surface: Victorian Science in the Ballet Ondine 50 Steven Ha 4. Phytology and Dance: The Impact of Plant Biology on Nineteenth- Century Flower Ballets 72 Alexander H. Schwan 5. New Sensations; Response to "Science under the Surface: Victorian Science in the Ballet Ondine" by Steven Ha and "Phytology and Dance: The Impact of Plant Biology on Nineteenth-Century Flower Ballets" by Alexander H.
Schwan 94 Whitney Laemmli Part II. Dancing Ideologies: Nation, Sexuality, Sciencing 6. Dr. Louis Véron, Medical Philosophy, and Medical Practice at the Paris Opera 103 Elizabeth Claire 7. Imagination, Sensation, and Habits: Medical Rhetoric and Popular Literature in Perceptions of the Paris Opera; Response to "Dr. Louis Véron, Medical Philosophy, and Medical Practice at the Paris Opera" by Elizabeth Claire 128 Olivia Sabee 8. The Paradox of the "Subtle Body": Dance, Tantra, and Science 132 Pallabi Chakravorty 9. Viewing Indian Dance across Time and Space; Response to "The Paradox of the 'Subtle Body': Dance, Tantra, and Science" by Pallabi Chakravorty 150 Tiziana Leucci 10.
Exhibiting (Scientific) Grace: American Delsartism and Black Citizenship in the New South 155 Carrie Streeter 11. Interrupting Jim Crow; Response to "Exhibiting (Scientific) Grace: American Delsartism and Black Citizenship in the New South" by Carrie Streeter 180 Susan C. Cook Part III. Physical Cultures: Disciplining and Improving the Self 12. The "Muscular Sense" and Therapeutic Modernism in the Eurhythmics of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze 184 Andrea Harris 13. Dualism in Jaques-Dalcroze's Theory of Movement; Response to "The 'Muscular Sense' and Therapeutic Modernism in the Eurhythmics of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze" by Andrea Harris 208 Dick McCaw 14. From Animal Magnetism to Materialist Transcendentalism: Margaret Fuller on Fanny Elssler 212 Johanna Pitetti-Heil 15. Labor and Laboratory of Kinesic Interplay in Nineteenth-Century Dance Theory; Response to "From Animal Magnetism to Materialist Transcendentalism: Margaret Fuller on Fanny Elssler" by Johanna Pitetti-Heil 231 Claudia Jeschke 16.
Hypnotic Dancing and the Science of Sleep and Dreams: The Controversial Case of Madeleine G. 236 Chantal Frankenbach 17. Ecstatic Fervors: Of Trance, Dance, and Self-Possession; Response to "Hypnotic Dancing and the Science of Sleep and Dreams: The Controversial Case of Madeleine G." by Chantal Frankenbach 261 Kélina Gotman 18. The Depths from the Surface: Interlaced Histories of Technologies and Dance in the Nineteenth Century 264 Janice Ross 19. Movement-Machines: Reflecting New Technologies in Doing and Scoring Dancing; Response to "The Depths from the Surface: Interlaced Histories of Technologies and Dance in the Nineteenth Century" by Janice Ross 284 Claudia Jeschke Part IV. "Outro" 20. Observing the Observers 291 Emily Coates 21.
Querying the Cosmos; Response to "Observing the Observers" by Emily Coates 303 Christian DuComb List of Contributors 307 Index 315.