The Choreography of Modernism in France: La Danseuse 1830-1930

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Choreographing the Coulisses: The Danseuse in Nineteenth-Century French Culture
• 2. Disembodying the Dancer/ Incorporating the Poem: The Symbolist Dance in Mallarme and Valery
• 3. Feministic' Aesthetics: Writing Dance and Performing Sex in Colette and Loie Fuller
• 4. The Mechanical Dancer: Avant-Garde Performance and Film
• 5. Le Triangle Obligatoire': Dancer, Spectator, Narrator Coda