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Ecstasy and the demon : feminism and nationalism in the dances of Mary Wigman / Susan A. Manning.
Van Pelt Library GV1785.W5 M36 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manning, Susan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973.
- Wigman, Mary.
- Dancers--Germany--Biography.
- Dancers.
- Modern dance--Political aspects.
- History.
- Modern dance.
- Modern dance--Social aspects.
- Germany.
- Choreographers--Germany--Biography.
- Choreographers.
- Modern dance--Social aspects--Germany--History.
- Modern dance--Political aspects--Germany--History.
- Feminist theory.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
- Summary:
- In this volume, the dance and cultural historian Susan Manning traces Wigman's career from Monte Verita, an artist's colony where she spent the First World War in voluntary exile, to West Berlin, where she premiered her final work just months after the building of the Berlin Wall.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520081935
- OCLC:
- 26547240
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