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Dancing machines : choreographies of the age of mechanical reproduction / Felicia McCarren.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCarren, Felicia M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modern dance.
- Mechanization in dance.
- Machinery.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 254 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- " In her second book (after Dance Pathologies, 1998), McCarren provides serious scholars a unique and illuminating perspective on early-20th-century European avant-garde." - Choice " McCarren' s ability to balance and integrate dance history, performance analysis, and textual analysis is rare. She has given us a book that opens up an entirely new perspective on dance modernism." - The Drama Review
- Contents:
- 1. Economies of Gesture: Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Cinematics 9
- Mechanics: The Human Machine 12
- Thermodynamics: The Human Motor 15
- Cinematics 21
- Choreographics 31
- Techne and Poesis: Hybrids 38
- 2. Choreocinema 43
- The Dancer, the Train, and the Cinema 43
- Edison Operates Dancers 45
- Transitions 53
- From Dance Spectator to Cinema Spectator 58
- "Loie Fuller" Dances for Lumiere; Anabella Dances for Edison 63
- 3. Abstraction 65
- Isadora's Motor Power 67
- Mechanical Grotesques 72
- The Dancer Disappears in a Station of the Metro 76
- Dance of the Intellect 80
- Modern Dance and Modernist Abstraction 82
- Isadora Dances for Gertrude Stein 86
- The Symbols and Not the Real Thing 92
- Isadora Dances for Marinetti 96
- 4. Ballets Without Bodies 99
- The Futurist Dancer versus the Dancer of the Future 99
- The Dancer Becomes a (War) Machine 103
- The Ballets Russes: Puppets and Savages 108
- The Ballets Suedois: A Critique of the Snapshot; an Homage to Cinema 112
- Instantist Ballet 118
- Mechanical Ballet 122
- Jean Borlin Dances for Blaise Cendrars 126
- 5. Labor Is Dancing 129
- Taylorism: Speed and Natural Ability 129
- Swinging in Cities 133
- Michio Ito Dances for Yeats 137
- Labor Is Dancing 138
- The Chorus Line 142
- Ornament of Duration 146
- Alienation 151
- 6. Submitting to the Machine 159
- Primitivism 163
- Josephine Baker's Use Value 168
- Possession 174
- Cinematic Techno-Transcendence 179
- Fixity 188
- Josephine Baker Dances for Posterity 190.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804739889
- 0804739978
- OCLC:
- 50694759
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