| Empire of Ecstasy |
| Abbreviations |
| Acknowledgments |
 | Figure One |
| • | Body, Image, Context |
| • | A Theoretical Context |
| • | Wolfgang Graeser |
| • | Karl Bücher |
| • | Émile Jaques-Dalcroze |
| Early Nackttanz |
| • | Adorée Villany |
| • | Mata Hari |
| • | Gertrud Leistikow |
| • | Olga Desmond |
| • | Barefoot Modernism |
| Nacktkultur |
| • | Hans Surén |
| • | Adolf Koch |
| • | Richard Ungewitter |
| Feminist Nacktkultur |
| • | Bess Mensendieck |
| • | Fritz Giese and Hedwig Hagemann |
| • | Dora Menzler |
| • | Alice Bloch |
| Erotic Nacktkultur |
| • | Lotte Herrlich |
| • | Nudism, Dance, and Eroticism |
| • | Die Schönheit |
| • | Parthenon |
| • | Ernst Schertel |
| • | Ida Herion |
| • | Problems of Nacktkultur Dance |
| • | Mary Wigman and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner |
| • | Rudolf Laban |
| Nacktballett |
| • | Celly De Rheydt |
| • | Girlkultur |
| • | Metropolis |
| • | Critique of Girlkultur |
| • | Anita Berber |
| • | Dances of Vice, Horror, and Ecstasy |
| Schools of Bodily Expressivity |
| • | Dance and Dances |
| • | Rudolf Laban |
| • | Mary Wigman |
| • | Loheland |
| • | Hellerau-Laxenburg |
| • | Rudolf Bode |
| • | Dorothee Günther |
| • | The Bauhaus Experiments |
| • | Lili Green |
| Solo Dancing |
| • | Semiotics of Solo Dance |
| • | Edith Von Schrenck |
| • | Grit Hegesa |
| • | Charlotte Bara |
| • | Sent M'ahesa |
| • | Ellen Tels and Mila Cirul |
| • | Niddy Impekoven |
| • | Gret Palucca |
| • | Gertrud Kraus |
| • | Gertrud Leistikow |
| • | Trudi Schoop, Julia Marcus, and Valeska Gert |
| Pair Dancing |
| • | Lo Hesse and Joachim Von Seewitz |
| • | Walter Holdt and Lavinia Schulz |
| • | The Falke Sisters |
| • | The Sacharoffs |
| • | Yvonne Georgi and Harald Kreutzberg |
| Group Dancing |
| • | Rita Sacchetto |
| • | Two Other Early Dance Groups |
| • | Vera Skoronel |
| • | Hans Weidt |
| • | Hertha Feist |
| • | Jutta Klamt |
| • | Rudolf Steiner |
| • | Gertrud Bodenwieser |
| • | Kurt Jooss |
| • | Lola Rogge |
| Theatre Dancing |
| • | Heinrich KrÖller and Ellen Petz |
| • | Theoretical Positions |
| • | Claire Eckstein |
| • | Laban in the Theatre |
| • | Other Theatre Choreographers |
| • | Max Terpis |
| Mass Dancing |
| • | Significant Theorists of Mass Movement |
| • | Totenmal |
| • | The Dance Congresses |
| • | Nazi Concepts of Mass Movement |
| Music and Movement |
| • | Hilde Strinz |
| • | Dance As Writing |
| Dance Criticism |
| • | Hans Brandenburg |
| • | Hans W. Fischer |
| • | Ernst Blass and Rainer Maria Rilke |
| • | Frank Thiess |
| • | Fritz Giese |
| • | Rudolf LÄmmel |
| • | Fritz Böhme |
| • | Critiques of German Critical Writing |
| • | Paul Van Ostaijen |
| Dance As Image |
| • | Graphic Arts |
| • | Sculpture |
| • | Dance Architecture |
| • | Cinema |
| • | Photography |
| Ecstasy and Modernity |
| References |
| Index |
| • | A |
| • | B |
| • | C |
| • | D |
| • | E |
| • | F |
| • | G |
| • | H |
| • | I |
| • | J |
| • | K |
| • | L |
| • | M |
| • | N |
| • | O |
| • | P |
| • | R |
| • | S |
| • | T |
| • | U |
| • | V |
| • | W |
| • | Z |
