Corporealities: Dancing Knowledge, Culture and Power

List of illustrations, Contributors’ biographies, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1 The ballerina’s phallic pointe, 2 History/theory—criticism/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

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.