Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Performative Body Spaces -- I. Biopolitical Choreographies: Performing the Body as Racial and Political Space -- 1. Metaphors of Dancing and the Human Body in Nazi Concentration Camps -- 2. From Dance under the Swastika to Movement Education: A Study of Embodied Culture -- 3. Political Body Spaces in the Performances of William Forsythe -- 4. Reading Skin Signs: Decoding Skin as the Fluid Boundary between Self and Other in Yoko Tawada -- II. Transcultural Topographies: Transgressing the Body as Gendered and Cultural Space -- 1. The Body in Space: Layers of Gender in Japanese Classical Dance -- 2. Counter-Narrativity and Corporeality in Kishida Rio's Ito Jigoku -- 3. The Absence of Voices in the Theatre Space: Ku Nauka's Production of Medea -- 4. Staging Culture - Staging Nature: Polynesian Performance as Nature and Nature as Performance in Hawaii -- III. Corporeal Mediations: Visualizing the Body as Private and Public Space -- 1. Moving through Fashion in Nineteenth-Century France -- 2. Reading Bodies: Female Secrecy and Sexuality in the Works of Renoir and Degas -- 3. Corporeal Topographies of the Image Zone: From Oskar Kokoschka's Murder of Metaphor to Georges Bataille's acéphale -- 4. Somatechnics and Makeover Reality TV: The Symbiotic Viewer/Participant Relationship -- IV. Controlled Interfaces: Imaging the Body as Research Object and Artistic Space -- 1. The Body as Object: From Body Image to Meta-Body -- 2. Touched: Organization, Control and Emergence in Choreographed Performance Systems -- List of Contributors -- Index.