Julie Townsend

An engaging and concise chronology of modernism through dance, with the danseuse constituting the correlation between performing, visual, and literary modernisms. -- French Studies French Studies

• Introduction 1. Choreographing the Coulisses: The Danseuse in Nineteenth-Century French Culture 2. Disembodying the Dancer/ Incorporating the Poem: The Symbolist Dance in Mallarmé and Valéry 3. Feministic' Aesthetics: Writing Dance and Performing Sex in Colette and Loïe Fuller 4. The Mechanical Dancer: Avant-Garde Performance and Film 5. Le Triangle Obligatoire': Dancer, Spectator, Narrator Coda

Julie Townsend

An engaging and concise chronology of modernism through dance, with the danseuse constituting the correlation between performing, visual, and literary modernisms. -- French Studies French Studies

• Introduction 1. Choreographing the Coulisses: The Danseuse in Nineteenth-Century French Culture 2. Disembodying the Dancer/ Incorporating the Poem: The Symbolist Dance in Mallarmé and Valéry 3. Feministic' Aesthetics: Writing Dance and Performing Sex in Colette and Loïe Fuller 4. The Mechanical Dancer: Avant-Garde Performance and Film 5. Le Triangle Obligatoire': Dancer, Spectator, Narrator Coda