New German dance studies / edited by Susan Manning and Lucia Ruprecht.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manning, Susan.

Ruprecht, Lucia, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Germany.

Dance.

Dance--Study and teaching--Germany.

Dance--Social aspects--Germany.

Dance--Social aspects.

Dance--Study and teaching.

Germany.

Physical Description:

viii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]

Summary:

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.

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.

Susan Manning is a professor of English, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University and the author of Ecstasy and the Demon: The Dances of Mary Wigman. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Affect, Discourse, and Dance before 1900 / Christina Thurner Thurner, Christina 17

2 Lola Montez and Spanish Dance in the 19th Century / Claudia Jeschke Jeschke, Claudia 31

3 Picturing Palucca at the Bauhaus / Susan Funkenstein Funkenstein, Susan 45

4 Rudolf Laban's Dance Film Projects / Susanne Franco Franco, Susanne 63

5 Hanya Holm and an American Tanzgemeinschaft / Tresa Randall Randall, Tresa 79

6 Lotte Goslar's Clowns / Karen Mozingo Mozingo, Karen 99

7 Back Again? Valeska Gert's Exiles / Kate Elswit Elswit, Kate 113

8 Was hleibt? The Politics of East German Dance / Marion Kant Kant, Marion 130

9 Warfare over Realism: Tanztheater in East Germany, 1966-1989 / Franz Anton Cramer Cramer, Franz Anton 147

10 Moving against Disappearance: East German Bodies in Contemporary Choreography / Jens Richard Giersdorf Giersdorf, Jens Richard 165

11 Pina Bausch, Mary Wigman, and the Aesthetic of "Being Moved" / Sabine Huschlia Huschlia, Sabine 182

12 Negotiating Choreography, Letter, and Law in William Forsythe / Gerald Siegmund Siegmund, Gerald 200

13 Engagements with the Past in Contemporary Dance / Yvonne Hardt Hardt, Yvonne 217

14 Lecture Performance as Contemporary Dance / Maaike Bleeker Bleeker, Maaike 232

15 Toward a Theory of Cultural Translation in Dance / Gabriele Klein Klein, Gabriele 247.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780252036767

025203676X

9780252078439

0252078438

OCLC:

752286946