1. Introduction
2. The invention of an ideal female national dancer in twentieth-century Iran
3. Mutribs and their dancers: the counter-ideal performers of new Iran
4. The cabaret dancer in her quotidian life
5. Dancing bodies in pre-revolutionary films and the 'enticing' reel cabaret dancer
6. The dancing body in the anti-obscenity discourse of religious press in pre-revolutionary Iran
7. Harikat-i mawzun: the post-revolutionary Iranian theatrical dance
8. Dance, body, space, and subjectivity on the twentieth-century Iranian stage.