Choreomania : dance and disorder / Kélina Gotman.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

xvi, 361 pages : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm.

Part I: Excavating dance in the archive -- Obscuritas antiquitatis: institutions, affiliations, marginalia -- Madness after Foucault: medieval bacchanals -- Translatio: St. Vitus's Dance, demonism, and the early modern -- The Convulsionaries: antics on the French Revolutionary stage -- Mobiles, mobs, and monads: nineteenth-century crowd forms -- Médecine rétrospective: hysteria's archival drag -- Part II: Colonial and postcolonial stages: scenes of ferment in the field -- 'Sicily Implies Asia and Africa': tarantellas and comparative method -- Ecstasy-belonging in Madagascar and Brazil -- Ghost dancing: excess, waste, and the American West -- 'The Gift of Seeing Resemblances': cargo cults in the antipodes -- Monstrous grace: blackness and the new dance 'Crazes' -- Coda: moving fields, modernity, and the Bacchic chorus.

Includes bibliographical references and index.