Dance and Disruption: Science and Body in the Long Nineteenth Century
July 16, 2020
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The DSA Long 19th Century Working Group will be hosting a virtual colloquium, “Dance and Disruption: Science and Body in the Long Nineteenth Century” on Saturday, August 8 and Sunday, August 9, from 12-2:45pm EST each day, featuring the following presentations:
- Sariel Golomb, “Venus in Pieces: Handling the Anatomical Body with Clemente Susini’s Venus de’ Medici”
- Elizabeth Claire, “Chorea lasciva in the Paris pleasure gardens - French waltz, madness, hygiene”
- Johanna Heil, “Dance as a Technology of Self: From Transcendentalism to Early American Modern Dance”
- Carrie Streeter, “Disrupting with Delsartism/Grecian Poses, Butterfly Dances, and Black Feminism, 1890-1914”
- Janice Ross, “The Skeleton in the Classroom”
- Lynn Matluck Brooks, “The Measure of Man: Science, Stage, and Citizenship in the Antebellum United States”
- María Sicarú Vásquez Orozco, “Ballet imaginaries and social roles in Mexico’s nineteenth- century”
- Garth Grimball, “Seduction on a Raked Stage: Giselle, Swan Lake, and the Men who Woo”
- Colin Murray, “Jules Perrot: Resurrecting the Sovereign Body as Statue”
We invite attendees (registration is free) to join us to hear these papers and offer comments and questions. If you are interested in attending, please email 19thcenturycolloquium2020@gmail.com by August 5 to receive a private Zoom link and a program.