... and Susan Langer’s similarly transcorporeal notion of a “continuum of feeling,” the chapter explores forms of dance in which affect is grounded in the material gestures of the body and located in the tensions required to create these abstract forms. Feeling was not suppressed in avant-garde dance but rather...

..., and entertainment at the palace including court poetry, music and dance. Weddings and funerals were also held at the palace, along with religious and secular ceremonies. Aghlabids al Andalus bathhouses Egypt Fāṭimids al Mahdiyya Fāṭimid capital city al Manṣūr bi 'llā Abū Ṭāhir Ismā‘īl al Manṣūriyya palaces...

...This chapter focuses on the balletic conversions of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This play is the only work in the canon in which the well-being of the cosmos, and of the society that subsists within it, is predicated on the dance. It is also unique among the comedies in having...

...This chapter offers an interpretation of the integrated dance theatre of the Restless Dance Company as involving a process of turning away from the determinations of intellectually disabled bodies in medical discourses using the Deleuzian concepts of ‘becoming’ and ‘affect’. It contends that bodies...

...This chapter focuses on the so-called arithmetic of rhythm and the digital technologies for dance. It discusses dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham's view that choreography can and should follow, rather than dictate, movement. It explores how dance can recruit choreographic software to allow...

...Mansfield and the world of the Ballets Russes, is the focus of this discussion of the importance of movement and dance for her writing and life. Incorporating aspects of Russian dance, especially its expressiveness, gesture and experimentation, into her prose becomes an important feature of her...

...This opening chapter considers Loïe Fuller’s veiled dance performances in the 1890s as formative touchstones for Salome’s later modernist appeal. Drawing on Stéphane Mallarmé’s influential notion of dance as a form of ‘bodily writing’, as well as Jacques Rancière’s more recent reading of Fuller’s...

... national culture CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi AKP art of presence carnivalesque civil dissent dance Erdoğan ethnic minorities ethnography music Roma In the years following the Gezi Park protests of summer 2013 , the AK Party, once hailed as a moderate Islamist party with aspirations...

...This chapter concentrates on the Federal Dance Project and on Helen Tamiris. It investigates the history of the Dance Project and the controversies regarding its productions. It focuses on two such examples, How Long Brethren? and The Trojan Incident. Both...

...Dickens’s literary representations of dance occur within a broader thematic and symbolic framework, so that dancing in his fiction becomes more than a mere colourful interlude designed to embroider his plots, but rather augments the larger concerns of his novels. This essay explores these thematic...

... to a strand of distributed cognition. Extended cognition is represented by the catalogue which made the collection available to the reading public; embodied cognition is represented by the dance performances of Emma Hamilton, Sir William’s wife, who based her tableaux vivants of ancient life...

...The way Mats Ek revives dramatization process in dance can help to explore another path to "choreographic instauration". While acknowledging the aesthetical paradigm of contemporary dance, how could we play again with a dancing dramatization, without falling in the trap of the classical regime...

... masking. Modernist innovations in masquerade, like the dance scenography of Loïe Fuller, highlight alternative methods of changing the body image, as well as transforming the human figure into a part-object form (an aspect exhibited also in a painting by Margaret Macdonald Mackinstosh). Modernist Pierrots...

...As a fundamentally hybrid medium, cinema has always been defined by its interactions with other art forms such as painting, sculpture, photography, performance and dance. Taking the in-between nature of the cinematic medium as its starting point, this collection of essays maps out new directions...

...Ranging from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, this book examines literary and choreographic representations of the figure of Salome, the biblical woman who danced for the head of St John the Baptist. The age of modernism witnessed an extraordinary cross-fertilisation of the arts...

...Irene and Vernon Castle were stewards of the transition from Victorian to modern dancing, and Fitzgerald uses this period as the setting for two series of stories. The rigid rules of Victorian dances gave way to a more improvisation-based style, and this chapter argues that a similar shift can...

...This chapter shows how Fitzgerald often associates modern dance with the primitive. Fitzgerald’s engagement with African American culture is complex, and though the appropriation of African American culture for profit is punished in certain stories, Fitzgerald’s engagement with black culture...

...In this chapter, filmmaker Adam Roberts discusses three of his films, Hands (1995), blue yellow (1995) and Pieces of the Quiet Dance (2006). Meditating on the intimate relationship between the filmmaker and dancers in movement, he touches upon...

...This chapter examines the ways in which Lawrence contributed extensive and innovative literary engagements with dance in the modernist period. Lawrence’s citations of dance are most widely associated with the liberation of the body and identity through early twentieth-century dance practices...