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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 in 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.
Contents
List of Figures ixAcknowledgments 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
