Lynn Matluck Brooks, the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Humanities Professor Emerita at Franklin & Marshall College, is the author or editor of many books, including John Durang: Man of the American Stage.

Sariel Golomb is a lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program.

Garth Grimball is the editor of [...].stories.

Contributors: Johanna Pitetti-Heil Chantal Frankenbach Jane Desmond Christian Ducomb Claudia Jeschke Kélina Gotman Pallabi Chakravorty Andrea Harris Dick McCaw Stephen Ha Emily Coates Tiziana Leucci Elizabeth Claire Susan Cook Carrie Streeter Olivia Sabee Janice Ross Alexander H. Schwan Whitney Laemmli

List of Figures ixAcknowledgments xi

Lynn Matluck Brooks, in conversation with Sariel Golomb and Garth Grimball

Part I. Learning How to Look: Regimes of Classification

1. Venus in Pieces: Choreographing the Anatomical Body with Clemente Susini’s Venus de’ Medici 21

Sariel Golomb

2. Choreographies of Knowledge: Touch and Vision in Anatomical Looking; Response to “Venus in Pieces: Choreographing the Anatomical Body with Clemente Susini’s Venus de’ Medici” by Sariel Golomb 45

Jane Desmond

3. Science under the Surface: Victorian Science in the Ballet Ondine 50

Steven Ha

4. Phytology and Dance: The Impact of Plant Biology on Nineteenth- Century Flower Ballets 72

Alexander H. Schwan

5. New Sensations; Response to “Science under the Surface: Victorian Science in the Ballet Ondine” by Steven Ha and “Phytology and Dance: The Impact of Plant Biology on Nineteenth-Century Flower Ballets” by Alexander H. Schwan 94

Whitney Laemmli

Part II. Dancing Ideologies: Nation, Sexuality, Sciencing

6. Dr. Louis Véron, Medical Philosophy, and Medical Practice at the Paris Opera 103

Elizabeth Claire

7. Imagination, Sensation, and Habits: Medical Rhetoric and Popular Literature in Perceptions of the Paris Opera; Response to “Dr. Louis Véron, Medical Philosophy, and Medical Practice at the Paris Opera” by Elizabeth Claire 128

Olivia Sabee

8. The Paradox of the “Subtle Body”: Dance, Tantra, and Science 132

Pallabi Chakravorty

9. Viewing Indian Dance across Time and Space; Response to “The Paradox of the ‘Subtle Body’: Dance, Tantra, and Science” by Pallabi Chakravorty 150

Tiziana Leucci

10. Exhibiting (Scientific) Grace: American Delsartism and Black Citizenship in the New South 155

Carrie Streeter

11. Interrupting Jim Crow; Response to “Exhibiting (Scientific) Grace: American Delsartism and Black Citizenship in the New South” by Carrie Streeter 180

Susan C. Cook

Part III. Physical Cultures: Disciplining and Improving the Self

12. The “Muscular Sense” and Therapeutic Modernism in the Eurhythmics of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze 184

Andrea Harris

13. Dualism in Jaques-Dalcroze’s Theory of Movement; Response to “The ‘Muscular Sense’ and Therapeutic Modernism in the Eurhythmics of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze” by Andrea Harris 208

Dick McCaw

14. From Animal Magnetism to Materialist Transcendentalism: Margaret Fuller on Fanny Elssler 212

Johanna Pitetti-Heil

15. Labor and Laboratory of Kinesic Interplay in Nineteenth-Century Dance Theory; Response to “From Animal Magnetism to Materialist Transcendentalism: Margaret Fuller on Fanny Elssler” by Johanna Pitetti-Heil 231

Claudia Jeschke

16. Hypnotic Dancing and the Science of Sleep and Dreams: The Controversial Case of Madeleine G. 236

Chantal Frankenbach

17. Ecstatic Fervors: Of Trance, Dance, and Self-Possession; Response to “Hypnotic Dancing and the Science of Sleep and Dreams: The Controversial Case of Madeleine G.” by Chantal Frankenbach 261

Kélina Gotman

18. The Depths from the Surface: Interlaced Histories of Technologies and Dance in the Nineteenth Century 264

Janice Ross

19. Movement-Machines: Reflecting New Technologies in Doing and Scoring Dancing; Response to “The Depths from the Surface: Interlaced Histories of Technologies and Dance in the Nineteenth Century” by Janice Ross 284

Claudia Jeschke

Part IV. “Outro”

20. Observing the Observers 291

Emily Coates

21. Querying the Cosmos; Response to “Observing the Observers” by Emily Coates 303

Christian DuComb

List of Contributors 307

Index 315