We list a number of sources which might help the reader take topics further. Our references are given in full in the notes. (As a large number of the primary sources, and a fair number of the secondary sources, are in Russian, we do not include a full list of references.)
Copeland, Roger and Marshall Cohen, eds. What Is Dance? Readings in Theory and Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Duncan, Isadora. My Life. The Restored Edition. New York: Liveright, 2013.
Foster, Susan Leigh. ‘Dancing Bodies’, in Incorporations, eds Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, 480–95. New York: Zone Books, 1992.
Garafola, Lynn. Diaghilev’s Ballets russes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Karina, Lilian and Marion Kant. Hitler’s Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich. Trans. Jonathan Steinberg. New York: Berghahn Books, 2003.
Kermode, Frank. ‘Poet and Dancer before Diaghilev’, in Puzzles and Epiphanies: Essays and Reviews 1858–1961, 1–28. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962.
Misler, Nicoletta. Vnachale bylo telo: ritmoplasticheskie eksperimenty nachala XX veka – Khoreologicheskaia laboratoriia GAKhN (In the Beginning Was the Body: Rhythmic-Plastic Experiments at the Beginning of the 20th Century – The Choreological Laboratory, GAKhN). Moscow: Izdatel’stvo-XXI vek, 2011.
Reynolds, Dee. Rhythmic Subjects: Uses of Energy in the Dance of Mary Wigman, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. Alton, Hampshire: Dance Books, 2007.
Schwartz, Hillel. ‘Torque: The New Kinaesthetic of the Twentieth Century’, in Incorporations, eds Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, 71–126. New York: Zone Books, 1992.
Sirotkina, Irina. Svobodnoe dvizhenie i plasticheskii tanets v Rossii (Free Movement and Plastic Dance in Russia). 2nd ed. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2012.
Surits, Elizabeth. Soviet Choreographers in the 1920s. Trans. Lynn Visson, ed. Sally Banes. London: Dance Books, 1990.
Veder, Robin. The Living Line: Modern Art and the Economy of Energy. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2015.
Davis, Tracy C., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Fischer-Lichte, Erika. The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics. Trans. Saskya Iris Jan. London: Routledge, 2008.
Harrison, Charles and Paul Wood, eds. Art in Theory: An Anthology of Changing Ideas. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
Noland, Carrie. Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Schechner, Richard. Performance Studies: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 2013.
Berthoz, Alain and Jean-Luc Petit. The Physiology and Phenomenology of Action. Trans. Christopher Macann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Bolens, Guillemette. The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative. Trans. Guillemette Bolens. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Classen, Constance. The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012.
Ratcliffe, Matthew. ‘Touch and the Sense of Reality’, in The Hand, an Organ of the Mind: What the Manual Tells the Mental, ed. Zdravko Radman, 131–57. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.
Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine. The Primacy of Movement. 2nd ed. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 2011.
Smith, Roger. ‘“The Sixth Sense”: Towards a History of Muscular Sensation’. Gesnerus: Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences 68, no. 2 (2011): 218–71.
Smith, Roger. ‘Kinaesthesia and Touching Reality’, in 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, online journal, no. 19 (2014), at www.19.bbk.ac.uk. (Other articles in this issue are on ‘The Victorian Tactile Imagination’.)