High School History Recap

#18 Choreomania with Dr Kelina Gotman

June 24, 2021 William H Palk and Colin du Plessis Season 3 Episode 18
High School History Recap
#18 Choreomania with Dr Kelina Gotman
Show Notes

In this episode Colin speaks to the author of  Choreomania: Dance and Disorder, Dr Kelina Gotman. Kelina is from King's College in London and her research interests include theatre, dance and performance history, and philosophy. In this episode we tackle  the formation of the concept of the ‘dancing disease’ in nineteenth-century colonial medical, psychiatric and anthropological circles. What is choreomania really all about? Did people truly go mad and dance themselves to insanity? Well, Kelina sets the record straight!

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