List of illustrations, Contributors biographies, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1 The ballerinas phallic pointe, 2 History/theorycriticism/practice, 3 There-turn of the flaneuse, 4 Antique longings: Genevieve Stebbins and American, Delsartean performance, 5 Dance and the history of hysteria, 6 Lifelessness in movement, or how do the dead move? Tracing displacement and disappearance for movement performance, 7 Dancing in the field: notes from memory, 8 Fete Accompli: gender, folk-dance, and Progressive-era political ideals in New York City, 9 Overreading The Promised Land: towards a narrative of context in dance, 10 Fragments for a story of tango bodies (on Choreocritics and the memory of power), Bibliography, Index