Part I: Excavating dance in the archive --
Obscuritas antiquitatis: institutions, affiliations, marginalia --
Madness after Foucault: medieval bacchanals --
Translatio: St. Vitus's Dance, demonism, and the early modern --
The Convulsionaries: antics on the French Revolutionary stage --
Mobiles, mobs, and monads: nineteenth-century crowd forms --
Médecine rétrospective: hysteria's archival drag --
Part II: Colonial and postcolonial stages: scenes of ferment in the field --
'Sicily Implies Asia and Africa': tarantellas and comparative method --
Ecstasy-belonging in Madagascar and Brazil --
Ghost dancing: excess, waste, and the American West --
'The Gift of Seeing Resemblances': cargo cults in the antipodes --
Monstrous grace: blackness and the new dance 'Crazes' --
Coda: moving fields, modernity, and the Bacchic chorus.

In this book, author Kelina Gotman examines choreographies of unrest, rethinking the modern formation of the choreomania concept as it moved across scientific and social scientific disciplines.