Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Inscription of Gesture: Inward Migrations in Dance -- 2. Physical Graffiti West: African American Gang Walks and Semiotic Practice -- 3. Gesture and Abstraction -- 4. Remembering Kinesthesia: An Inquiry into Embodied Cultural Knowledge -- 5. Digesture: Gesture and Inscription in Experimental Cinema -- 6. Miming Signing: Henri Michaux and the Writing Body -- 7. Ghosting: The Performance and Migration of Cinematic Gesture, Focusing on Hou Hsiao-Hsien's: Good Men, Good Women -- 8. The Gestures of Bharata Natyam: Migrating into Diasporic Contemporary Indian Dance -- 9. Mimique -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y.