Dancing Naturally

1. Nature, Force and Variation
Rachel Fensham

2. Constructing and Contesting the Natural in British Theatre Dance
Alexandra Carter

3. Ideas of Nature, the Natural and the Modern in Early Twentieth-Century Dance Discourse
Michael Huxley, Ramsay Burt

4. The Ancient Greeks and the ‘Natural’
Fiona Macintosh

5. From the Artificial to the Natural Body: Social Dancing in Britain, 1900–1914
Theresa Jill Buckland

6. Dancing Based on Natural Movement
Mary A. Johnstone, Madge Atkinson

7. Undressing and Dressing Up: Natural Movement’s Life in Costume
Rachel Fensham

8. Nature Moving Naturally in Succession: An Exploration of Doris Humphrey’s Water Study
Lesley Main

9. Tensing and Relaxing Naturally: Systematic Approaches to Training the Body
Susan Leigh Foster

10. ‘Female Nature’, Body Culture and Plastique
Karen Vedel

11. Tethering the Flow: Dialogues between Dance, Physical Culture and Antiquity in Interwar Australia
Amanda Card

12. Mining Anatomy: Moving Naturally
Libby Worth

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Dance, Arts, Performing Arts