Part I. Artists' conceptions of dance and movement -- When is a circle dance simply a circle of dancers? Matisse and the Sardana / Nancy G. Heller -- Do artists' renderings reveal or conceal? Images of dance in Korea / Judy Van Zile -- Part II. Images of dance as historical records -- In search of continuity : tombstones and dance in the Dubrovnik area / Elsie Ivancich Dunin -- Performance, iconography, and narrative in Ottoman imperial festivals / Arzu Öztürkmen -- The hands and arms tell the story : movement through time in eighteenth-century dance depictions from Polynesia / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Self-portraits : John Durang on stage in early Philadelphia / Lynn Matluck Brooks -- In the dance classroom with Edgar Degas : historical perspectives on ballet technique / Sandra Noll Hammond -- Part III. Politics, class, and society in images of dance -- Chastisement and celebration : dance in papal Bologna in the etchings of G.M. Mitelli (1634-1718) / Barbara Sparti -- Picturing Hungarian patriotism : the Bikkessy album / László Felföldi -- The dance of Zalongos : an invented tradition on canvas / Irene Loutzaki -- George Luks and "tough dancing" on New York's lower east side / Ellery Foutch -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : dance images and dance in early twentieth-century Germany / Shelley Wood Cordulack -- Part IV. Motion in stillness -- Still moving : the revelation or representation of dance in still photography / Matthew Reason.