Catherine Hindson is Lecturer in Performance Studies at the University of Bristol

• IntroductionThe terrain: 1. The theatre of the city: urbanisation, performance and spectatorship in fin-de-siècle London and Paris2. ‘All the noblest arts … expressed in the measured movements of a perfectly shaped body’: embodiment and spectacular performances of genderSpaces: 3. Epidemics of enchanting creatures: Loïe Fuller and the Gaiety Theatre, London4. Madness, dancing and the dancer: Jane Avril and the Salpêtrière hospital, ParisImage: 5. ‘They are wise who advertise, in every generation’: image and the female celebrity 6. The art of imitation: staging the cult of celebrity Intersections:7. Moving away from the muse: Art Nouveau, Naturalist and Symbolist practices on the popular stage 8. Avant-Garde Salomania: ‘the most famous dancing girl in history?’AfterwordBibliography

Catherine Hindson is Lecturer in Performance Studies at the University of Bristol

• IntroductionThe terrain: 1. The theatre of the city: urbanisation, performance and spectatorship in fin-de-siècle London and Paris2. ‘All the noblest arts … expressed in the measured movements of a perfectly shaped body’: embodiment and spectacular performances of genderSpaces: 3. Epidemics of enchanting creatures: Loïe Fuller and the Gaiety Theatre, London4. Madness, dancing and the dancer: Jane Avril and the Salpêtrière hospital, ParisImage: 5. ‘They are wise who advertise, in every generation’: image and the female celebrity 6. The art of imitation: staging the cult of celebrity Intersections:7. Moving away from the muse: Art Nouveau, Naturalist and Symbolist practices on the popular stage 8. Avant-Garde Salomania: ‘the most famous dancing girl in history?’AfterwordBibliography

Catherine Hindson is Lecturer in Performance Studies at the University of Bristol

• IntroductionThe terrain: 1. The theatre of the city: urbanisation, performance and spectatorship in fin-de-siècle London and Paris2. ‘All the noblest arts … expressed in the measured movements of a perfectly shaped body’: embodiment and spectacular performances of genderSpaces: 3. Epidemics of enchanting creatures: Loïe Fuller and the Gaiety Theatre, London4. Madness, dancing and the dancer: Jane Avril and the Salpêtrière hospital, ParisImage: 5. ‘They are wise who advertise, in every generation’: image and the female celebrity 6. The art of imitation: staging the cult of celebrity Intersections:7. Moving away from the muse: Art Nouveau, Naturalist and Symbolist practices on the popular stage 8. Avant-Garde Salomania: ‘the most famous dancing girl in history?’AfterwordBibliography