Dance pathologies
Subtitle: performance, poetics, medicine
By: Felicia McCarren.
Series: Writing science
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 1894-1961; Giselle (Choreographic work); Dance -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 19th century; Mental illness -- History -- 19th century; Pathology -- History -- 19th century; Women dancers -- History -- 19th century; Poetics
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-272) and index.