Introducing colonial and postcolonial dialectics on the subject of dance -- Dismissal veiling desire: Kuchuk Hanem and imperial masculinity -- The dance of extravagant pleasure: male performers of the Orient and the politics of the imperial gaze -- Dancing decadence: semiotics of dance and the phantasm of Salome -- "I have seen this dance on old Greek vases": Hellenism and the worlding of Greek dance -- What dancer from which dance? : concluding reflections -- Epilogue -- Notes.
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