Table of Contents

Markus Hallensleben: Introduction: Performative Body Spaces
Biopolitical Choreographies: Performing the Body as Racial and Political Space
Bożena Karwowska: Metaphors of Dancing and the Human Body in Nazi Concentration Camps
Patricia Vertinsky: From Dance under the Swastika to Movement Education: A Study of Embodied Culture
Gabriele Brandstetter: Political Body Spaces in the Performances of William Forsythe
Jeremy Redlich: Reading Skin Signs: Decoding Skin as the Fluid Boundary between Self and Other in Yoko Tawada
Transcultural Topographies: Transgressing the Body as Gendered and Cultural Space
Colleen Lanki: The Body in Space: Layers of Gender in Japanese Classical Dance
Yasuko Ikeuchi: Counter-Narrativity and Corporeality in Kishida Rio’s Ito Jigoku
Eiichiro Hirata: The Absence of Voices in the Theatre Space: Ku Nauka’s Production of Medea
Sabine Wilke: Staging Culture - Staging Nature: Polynesian Performance as Nature and Nature as Performance in Hawaii
Corporeal Mediations: Visualizing the Body as Private and Public Space
Sima Godfrey: Moving through Fashion in Nineteenth-Century France
Kathryn Brown: Reading Bodies: Female Secrecy and Sexuality in the Works of Renoir and Degas
Rainer Rumold: Corporeal Topographies of the Image Zone: From Oskar Kokoschka’s Murder of Metaphor to Georges Bataille’s acéphale
Beth Pentney: Somatechnics and Makeover Reality TV: The Symbiotic Viewer/Participant Relationship
Controlled Interfaces: Imaging the Body as Research Object and Artistic Space
Robert Pritchard: The Body as Object: From Body Image to Meta-Body
Henry Daniel: Touched: Organization, Control and Emergence in Choreographed Performance Systems
List of Contributors
Index