Dance pathologies

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.

subjects: Dance,  Giselle (Choreographic work),  History,  Mental illness,  Pathology,  Poetics,  Psychological aspects,  Psychological aspects of Dance,  Women dancers,  Psychology,  Pathologie,  Dancing,  Aspect psychologique,  Danseuses,  Bagatelles pour un massacre (Ce line, Louis-Ferdinand),  Poe tique,  Histoire,  Maladies mentales,  Giselle (Ballet),  Danse,  Mental Disorders,  Women,  Dance, history,  Pathology, history,  Dancers,  Poétique

People: Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961)

Times: 19th century