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Dance Pathologies Book
A history of danceâ??s pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the bodyâ??s transcendence of itself. Exploring danceâ??s historical links to the medical and scientific connotations of a â??pathology,â? 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 bodyâ??s meanings. As a particularly performative form of madness, nineteenth-century hysteria preserved the traditional connection to dance in medical descriptions of â??… read more...
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