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A history of dance s pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body s transcendence of itself. Exploring dance s historical links to the medical and scientific connotations of a pathology, this book asks what has subtended the idealization of dance in the West. It investigates the nineteenth-century response, in the intersections of dance, literature, and medicine, to the complex and long-standing connections between illness, madness, poetry, and performance. In the nineteenth century, medicine becomes a major cultural index to measure the body s meanings. As a particularly performative form of madness, nineteenth-century hysteria preserved the traditional connection to dance in medical descriptions of choreas. In its withholding of speech and its use of body code, dance, like hysteria, functions as a form of symptomatic expression.

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Book category Books in English The arts Dance & other performing arts Dance

• Full title: Dance Pathologies
• Author: Felicia McCarren
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780804735247
• ISBN: 0804735247
• ID: 02272827
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 426 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 1998

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