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Dance and science in the long nineteenth century : The articulate body / edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks, Sariel Golomb, and Garth Grimball.
Brooks, Lynn Matluck, editor.; Golomb, Sariel, editor.; Grimball, Garth, editor.
2025
GV1595 .D27 2025
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Title
Dance and science in the long nineteenth century : The articulate body / edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks, Sariel Golomb, and Garth Grimball.
ISBN
9780813073538 electronic book
0813073537 electronic book
9780813070889 electronic book
0813070880 electronic book
9780813079264 hardcover
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2025]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 321 pages) : illustrations
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GV1595 .D27 2025
Alternate Call Number
PER003100 HIS037060
Dewey Decimal Classification
792.809
Summary
"This collection reveals how the fields of dance and science informed each other's development and engaged with dominant European worldviews during a time of unprecedented colonial expansion"-- Provided by publisher.
" Revealing the interplay and influence of dance and science during an age of colonial expansion 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 development and engaged with dominant European worldviews in a time of unprecedented colonial expansion. The chapters in dance and science in the Long Nineteenth Century examine how trends and developments in the performing arts reflected scientific thinking of this era, including the categorization of "types" of bodies and the ranking of cultural and religious beliefs, as well as how dance served as an active site of inquiry where the workings and limits of the human body could be studied. Researchers discuss topics including the influence of plant biology on the aesthetics of ballet, technological advancements in the staging and recording of performances, arguments for the use of Eurhythmics in promoting a stronger "race," and European fascination with Indian dance and yoga. Featuring response essays that put leading scholars in conversation with one another and offer new perspectives, this volume is unique for its geographic scope and its discussion of diverse bodies, cultures, themes, and scientific disciplines. It sheds light on a historical interplay that has shaped many of today's political and cultural realities. "-- Provided by publisher.
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Brooks, Lynn Matluck, editor.
Golomb, Sariel, editor.
Grimball, Garth, editor.
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Introduction: Meeting points, overlaps, escapes / Lynn 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 V'ron, 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 mile 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 / K'lina 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

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