"Theatres of the Body" with Lynn Matluck Brooks
06 January 2026

"Theatres of the Body" with Lynn Matluck Brooks

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Theatres of the Body is a critical examination of danced stage productions in antebellum Philadelphia. At the time, the city boasted the largest number of native-born ballet dancers in the young nation and also became a creative home to blackface star T. D. Rice, who helped popularize that performance genre.


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