#18 Choreomania with Dr Kelina Gotman
Jun 24, 2021•46 min•Season 3Ep. 18
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Episode description
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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