The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography is a study of the theory of kinetic theatricality in the western European context. The dancing body of courtly social dance is analyzed in French and Italian dance treatises of the Renaissance through the intertexts of oratorical action, pedagogical discourses of civility and conceptions of value emanating from descriptions of social interaction in courtesy books.

Mark Franko is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance at the Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University, USA. He is founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory book series.

Preface to the Revised Edition; 1. Introduction; 2. The Mythological Intertext: Language; 3. The Sociological Intertext: Courtesy; 4. The Pedagogical Intertext: Precepts; 5. The Political Intertext: Civil Conversatione (Social Intercourse); Bibliography; Index.