New German dance studies /edited by Susan Manning and Lucia Ruprecht.
New German dance studies /edited by Susan Manning and Lucia Ruprecht.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : new dance studies/new German cultural studies / Affect, discourse, and dance before 1900 / Lola Montez and Spanish dance in the 19th Century / Picturing Palucca at the Bauhaus / Rudolf Laban's Dance Film Projects / Hanya Holm and an American / Lotte Goslar's clowns / Back again? Valeska Gert's exiles / Was bleibt? The politics of East German dance / Warfare over realism : Tanztheater in East Germany, 1966-1989 / Moving against disappearance : East German bodies in contemporary choreography / Pina Bausch, Mary Wigman, and the aesthetic of "being moved" / Negotiating choreography, letter, and law in William Forsythe / Engagements with the past in contemporary dance / Lecture performance as contemporary dance / Toward a theory of cultural translation in dance / Susan Manning and Lucia Ruprecht -- Christina Thurner -- Claudia Jeschke -- Susan Funkenstein -- Susanne Franco -- Tanzgemeinschaft Tresa Randall -- Karen Mozingo -- Kate Elswit -- Marion Kant -- Franz Anton Cramer -- Jens Richard Giersdorf -- Sabine Huschka -- Gerald Siegmund -- Yvonne Hardt -- Maaike Bleeker -- Gabriele Klein.
New German Dance Studies offers fresh histories and theoretical inquiries that resonate across fields of the humanities. Sixteen essays range from eighteenth-century theater dance to popular contemporary dances in global circulation. In an exquisite trans-Atlantic dialogue that demonstrates the complexity and multilayered history of German dance, American and European scholars and artists elaborate on definitive performers and choreography, focusing on three major thematic areas: Weimar culture and its afterlife, the German Democratic Republic, and recent conceptual trends in theater dance._x000B__x000B_Contributors are Maaike Bleeker, Franz Anton Cramer, Kate Elswit, Susanne Franco, Susan Funkenstein, Jens Richard Giersdorf, Yvonne Hardt, Sabine Huschka, Claudia Jeschke, Marion Kant, Gabriele Klein, Karen Mozingo, Tresa Randall, Gerald Siegmund, and Christina Thurner.
9780252093869 9786613895172 6613895172 9781283582728
2019718839
016048735 Uk
Dance--Germany.
Dance--Study and teaching--Germany.
Dance--Social aspects--Germany.
Electronic Books.
GV1651 / .N494 2012
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : new dance studies/new German cultural studies / Affect, discourse, and dance before 1900 / Lola Montez and Spanish dance in the 19th Century / Picturing Palucca at the Bauhaus / Rudolf Laban's Dance Film Projects / Hanya Holm and an American / Lotte Goslar's clowns / Back again? Valeska Gert's exiles / Was bleibt? The politics of East German dance / Warfare over realism : Tanztheater in East Germany, 1966-1989 / Moving against disappearance : East German bodies in contemporary choreography / Pina Bausch, Mary Wigman, and the aesthetic of "being moved" / Negotiating choreography, letter, and law in William Forsythe / Engagements with the past in contemporary dance / Lecture performance as contemporary dance / Toward a theory of cultural translation in dance / Susan Manning and Lucia Ruprecht -- Christina Thurner -- Claudia Jeschke -- Susan Funkenstein -- Susanne Franco -- Tanzgemeinschaft Tresa Randall -- Karen Mozingo -- Kate Elswit -- Marion Kant -- Franz Anton Cramer -- Jens Richard Giersdorf -- Sabine Huschka -- Gerald Siegmund -- Yvonne Hardt -- Maaike Bleeker -- Gabriele Klein.
New German Dance Studies offers fresh histories and theoretical inquiries that resonate across fields of the humanities. Sixteen essays range from eighteenth-century theater dance to popular contemporary dances in global circulation. In an exquisite trans-Atlantic dialogue that demonstrates the complexity and multilayered history of German dance, American and European scholars and artists elaborate on definitive performers and choreography, focusing on three major thematic areas: Weimar culture and its afterlife, the German Democratic Republic, and recent conceptual trends in theater dance._x000B__x000B_Contributors are Maaike Bleeker, Franz Anton Cramer, Kate Elswit, Susanne Franco, Susan Funkenstein, Jens Richard Giersdorf, Yvonne Hardt, Sabine Huschka, Claudia Jeschke, Marion Kant, Gabriele Klein, Karen Mozingo, Tresa Randall, Gerald Siegmund, and Christina Thurner.
9780252093869 9786613895172 6613895172 9781283582728
2019718839
016048735 Uk
Dance--Germany.
Dance--Study and teaching--Germany.
Dance--Social aspects--Germany.
Electronic Books.
GV1651 / .N494 2012