CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Movement and Exuberant Modernism
- 1 The Sixth Sense
- The senses
- Muscular feeling and kinaesthesia
- 2 Search for Deeper Knowledge
- The kinaesthetic intellect
- ‘The higher sensitivity’
- Kinaesthesia and synaesthesia
- 3 Expression in Dance
- The new dance
- The Russian Hellenes
- ‘Ach, the devil take it, again they’re dancing here’
- 4 Speaking Movement
- The perfect language: Andrei Bely on gesture
- The dance-word: the creative union of Esenin and Duncan
- Word plasticity: the budetliane and the bare-footed
- 5 By ‘the Fourth Way’
- The mystic arts
- From Dalcroze to Gurdjieff
- ‘Presence’
- 6 Thinking with the Body
- Mayakovsky dances the foxtrot
- Brik-dance
- Who thought up biomechanics?
- 7 Art as Bodily Knowledge
- Technique
- Kinaesthesia in culture
- Further Reading
- Notes
- Index