Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Meeting Points, Overlaps, Escapes

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

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

Jane Desmond

3. Science under the Surface: Victorian Science in the Ballet Ondine

Steven Ha

4. Phytology and Dance: The Impact of Plant Biology on Nineteenth- Century Flower Ballets

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

Whitney Laemmli

Part II. Dancing Ideologies: Nation, Sexuality, Sciencing

6. Dr. Louis Véron, Medical Philosophy, and Medical Practice at the Paris Opera

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

Olivia Sabee

8. The Paradox of the “Subtle Body”: Dance, Tantra, and Science

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

Tiziana Leucci

10. Exhibiting (Scientific) Grace: American Delsartism and Black Citizenship in the New South

Carrie Streeter

11. Interrupting Jim Crow; Response to “Exhibiting (Scientific) Grace: American Delsartism and Black Citizenship in the New South” by Carrie Streeter

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

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

Dick McCaw

14. From Animal Magnetism to Materialist Transcendentalism: Margaret Fuller on Fanny Elssler

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

Claudia Jeschke

16. Hypnotic Dancing and the Science of Sleep and Dreams: The Controversial Case of Madeleine G.

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

Kélina Gotman

18. The Depths from the Surface: Interlaced Histories of Technologies and Dance in the Nineteenth Century

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

Claudia Jeschke

Part IV. “Outro”

20. Observing the Observers

Emily Coates

21. Querying the Cosmos; Response to “Observing the Observers” by Emily Coates

Christian DuComb

List of Contributors

Index