Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

". . . 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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgments
• An Introduction to Moving Bodies
• Choreographing History
• Resurrecting Historical Bodies
• Toward a Universal Language of Motion: Reflections on a Seventeenth-Century Muscle Man
• Interval Training
• Bodily Interventions into Academic Disciplines
• Tacit Knowledge, Courtliness, and the Scientist's Body
• Music, the Pythagoreans, and the Body
• Agency and History: The Demands of Dance Ethnography
• Moving Theory Across Bodies of Practice
• Credit, Novels, Masturbation
• Advertising Every Body: Images from the Japanese Modern Years
• Bodies of Doctrine: Headshots, Jane Austen, and the Black Indians of Mardi Gras
• Historians as Bodies in Motion
• Modern Dance in the Third Reich: Six Positions and a Coda
• The Body's Endeavors as Cultural Practices
• Different Personas: A History of One's Own?
• Embodying Theory
• Meditations on the Patriarchal Pythagorean Pratfall and the Lesbian Siamesia Two-Step
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at Choreographing Writing
• Bodies of Evidence: Law and Order, Sexy Machines, and the Erotics of Fieldwork among Physicists
• Bodies and Their Plots
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

SUSAN LEIGH FOSTER, Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance at the University of California, Riverside, is the author of Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance.