Sarah Kennel, who will be supported by a grant from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. in 1999-2000, is a Ph.D. candidate in History of Art working on a dissertation entitled Bodies, Statues, Machines: Dance and Modernism in France. The dissertation considers how the fluid interchange between the visual and performing arts characteristic of early twentieth century offered to artists new materials, techniques and modes of imagining and representing the human body and its relation to modernity. Kennel’s methodology, drawing upon Freudian psychoanalytic theory, materialist understanding of the “work” of culture, and feminist theorizations of gender, sexuality and identity, is intended to demonstrate the importance of the study of dance, which has remained somewhat marginal in the academy, as a cultural practice.