Tuscan dancing figures in the Quattrocento

The first decades of the twentieth century saw a flurry of dance ‘crazes’, from the tango and the Charleston to the jitterbug, increasingly mapped onto the language of blackness. J...

Renegade physician Paracelsus compared St. John’s Day dances to earthquakes, epileptic tremors, and tics. This ecosophical and vitalist concept, according to which all sorts of bod...

This chapter discusses the development of pair skating. Skating with a partner of the opposite sex in which there is physical contact had its real beginning in England, bastion of ...

Abstract Figures of Play explores the reflexive aspects of ancient theatrical culture across genres. Fifth century tragedy and comedy sublimated the agonistic basis ...

The chapter provides an examination of how the photographs by Stan Douglas use disco—the discotheque as a place, disco as the music that is played and heard in that place, and disc...

This book traces the emergence and spread of the choreomania concept through colonial medical and ethnographic circles, showing how fantasies of instability—and of the Oriental oth...

This chapter examines the contributions of hip-hop art forms to contemporary urban thought and cultural expression among Native Americans. It argues that the infusion of hip-hop ar...

This title in the American Dance Floor series provides an overview of the origins, development, and current status of Latin social dancing in the United States.Latin dance and musi...