The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde: Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia

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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE ON THE TEXT -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction: Movement and Exuberant Modernism -- CHAPTER ONE The Sixth Sense -- The senses -- Muscular feeling and kinaesthesia -- CHAPTER TWO Search for Deeper Knowledge -- The kinaesthetic intellect -- 'The higher sensitivity' -- Kinaesthesia and synaesthesia -- CHAPTER THREE Expression in Dance -- The new dance -- The Russian Hellenes -- 'Ach, the devil take it, again they're dancing here!' -- CHAPTER FOUR 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 -- CHAPTER FIVE By 'the Fourth Way' -- The mystic arts -- From Dalcroze to Gurdjieff -- 'Presence' -- CHAPTER SIX Thinking with the Body -- Mayakovsky dances the foxtrot -- Brik-dance -- Who thought up biomechanics? -- CHAPTER SEVEN Art as Bodily Knowledge -- Technique -- Kinaesthesia in culture -- FURTHER READING -- NOTES -- INDEX.