Choreographing History [Paperback]

... I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body. Dance Research Journal

Choreographing History... assembles an impressive diversity of sites, disciplines and critical approaches... [and] includes not only historical bodies and discourses, but also the very bodies of the historians themselves. Parachute

This volume is not only full of gems (the very lineup of preeminent scholars is impressive), but is also a neat cross-section of the academic conventions and mannerisms of our time. Dance Chronicle

... [an] important step... in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and betweeen present and past. Theatre Journal

Historians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focus on the body, merging the project of writing about the body with theoretical concerns in the writing of history.

Acknowledgments
An Introduction to Moving Bodies
Choreographing HistorySusan Leigh Foster

Resurrecting Historical Bodies
Toward a Universal Language of Motion: Reflections on a Seventeenth-Century Muscle ManStephen Greenblatt
Interval TrainingJohn MacAloon

Bodily Interventions into Academic Disciplines
Tacit Knowledge, Courtliness, and the Scientists BodyMario Biagioli
Music, the Pythagoreans, and the BodySusan McClary
Agency and History: The Demands of Dance EthnographyRandy Martin

Moving Theory Across Bodies of Practice
Credit, Novels, MasturbationThomas W. Laqueur
Advertising Every Body: Images from the Japanese Modern YearsMiriam Silverberg
Bodies of Doctrine: Headshots, Jane Austen, and the Black Indians of Mardi GrasJoseph Roach

Historians as Bodies in Motion
Modern Dance in the Thlã&