Irina Sirotkina is a lecturer at the Institute for the Theory and History of the Humanities, The Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. She is a cultural historian who has published on the history of psychiatry and on the history of free dance.Roger Smith is Emeritus Reader in the History of Science, Lancaster University, UK and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation. He is an internationally well known historian and philosopher of psychology and the human sciences, the author of standard texts in the field as well as specialist studies relating to the history of mind and brain and the understanding of ‘being human’, including Inhibition: History and Meaning in the Sciences of Mind and Brain (1992), and The Norton History of the Human Sciences (1997).

This book is a treasure chest of personages and practices—everyone from Kandinsky to Blok, from Scriabin to Shklovsky, and multiple souls in between; everything from Dalcroze Eurythmics to the Foxtrot. It offers dynamic new ways to view the cultural history of this time. It all but exhorts its readers to go out and dance themselves. Many sources were crunched to make this book’s chapters, and many exciting roads lead out of them into future projects.

• List of illustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on text/translationList of abbreviationsIntroduction: Movement and exuberant modernismChapter 1 The sixth sense The sensesMuscular feeling and kinaesthesia Chapter 2 Search for deeper knowledgeThe kinaesthetic intellect‘The higher sensitivity’Kinaesthesia and synaesthesiaChapter 3 Expression in dance The new danceThe Russian Hellenes ‘Ach, the devil take it, they’re dancing here again’Chapter 4 Speaking movementThe perfect language: Andrei Bely on gesture The dance-word: the creative union of Esenin and DuncanWord plasticity: the budetliane and the bare-footed Chapter 5 By ‘the fourth way’The mystic artsFrom Dalcroze to Gurdjieff‘Presence’ Chapter 6 Thinking with the bodyMayakovsky dances the fox-trotBrik-danceWho thought up biomechanics?Chapter 7 Art as bodily knowledgeTechnique Kinaesthesia in cultureFurther readingNotesIndex

Irina Sirotkina is a lecturer at the Institute for the Theory and History of the Humanities, The Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. She is a cultural historian who has published on the history of psychiatry and on the history of free dance.Roger Smith is Emeritus Reader in the History of Science, Lancaster University, UK and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation. He is an internationally well known historian and philosopher of psychology and the human sciences, the author of standard texts in the field as well as specialist studies relating to the history of mind and brain and the understanding of ‘being human’, including Inhibition: History and Meaning in the Sciences of Mind and Brain (1992), and The Norton History of the Human Sciences (1997).

This book is a treasure chest of personages and practices—everyone from Kandinsky to Blok, from Scriabin to Shklovsky, and multiple souls in between; everything from Dalcroze Eurythmics to the Foxtrot. It offers dynamic new ways to view the cultural history of this time. It all but exhorts its readers to go out and dance themselves. Many sources were crunched to make this book’s chapters, and many exciting roads lead out of them into future projects.

• List of illustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on text/translationList of abbreviationsIntroduction: Movement and exuberant modernismChapter 1 The sixth sense The sensesMuscular feeling and kinaesthesia Chapter 2 Search for deeper knowledgeThe kinaesthetic intellect‘The higher sensitivity’Kinaesthesia and synaesthesiaChapter 3 Expression in dance The new danceThe Russian Hellenes ‘Ach, the devil take it, they’re dancing here again’Chapter 4 Speaking movementThe perfect language: Andrei Bely on gesture The dance-word: the creative union of Esenin and DuncanWord plasticity: the budetliane and the bare-footed Chapter 5 By ‘the fourth way’The mystic artsFrom Dalcroze to Gurdjieff‘Presence’ Chapter 6 Thinking with the bodyMayakovsky dances the fox-trotBrik-danceWho thought up biomechanics?Chapter 7 Art as bodily knowledgeTechnique Kinaesthesia in cultureFurther readingNotesIndex

Irina Sirotkina is a lecturer at the Institute for the Theory and History of the Humanities, The Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation. She is a cultural historian who has published on the history of psychiatry and on the history of free dance.Roger Smith is Emeritus Reader in the History of Science, Lancaster University, UK and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation. He is an internationally well known historian and philosopher of psychology and the human sciences, the author of standard texts in the field as well as specialist studies relating to the history of mind and brain and the understanding of ‘being human’, including Inhibition: History and Meaning in the Sciences of Mind and Brain (1992), and The Norton History of the Human Sciences (1997).

This book is a treasure chest of personages and practices—everyone from Kandinsky to Blok, from Scriabin to Shklovsky, and multiple souls in between; everything from Dalcroze Eurythmics to the Foxtrot. It offers dynamic new ways to view the cultural history of this time. It all but exhorts its readers to go out and dance themselves. Many sources were crunched to make this book’s chapters, and many exciting roads lead out of them into future projects.

• List of illustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsNote on text/translationList of abbreviationsIntroduction: Movement and exuberant modernismChapter 1 The sixth sense The sensesMuscular feeling and kinaesthesia Chapter 2 Search for deeper knowledgeThe kinaesthetic intellect‘The higher sensitivity’Kinaesthesia and synaesthesiaChapter 3 Expression in dance The new danceThe Russian Hellenes ‘Ach, the devil take it, they’re dancing here again’Chapter 4 Speaking movementThe perfect language: Andrei Bely on gesture The dance-word: the creative union of Esenin and DuncanWord plasticity: the budetliane and the bare-footed Chapter 5 By ‘the fourth way’The mystic artsFrom Dalcroze to Gurdjieff‘Presence’ Chapter 6 Thinking with the bodyMayakovsky dances the fox-trotBrik-danceWho thought up biomechanics?Chapter 7 Art as bodily knowledgeTechnique Kinaesthesia in cultureFurther readingNotesIndex