Poetics of dance : body, image, and space in the historical avant-gardes / Gabriele Brandstetter ; translation from the German by Elena Polzer with Mark Franko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandstetter, Gabriele, author.

Contributor:

Polzer, Elena, translator.

Series:

Oxford studies in dance theory

Standardized Title:

Tanz-Lektüren. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Modern dance--Philosophy.

Modern dance.

Body schema.

Physical Description:

xvii, 432 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Summary:

When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in the form of avant-garde theatrical and movement productions of the early twentieth-century. Author Gabriele Brandstetter established in this book not only a relation between dance and critical theory, but in fact a full interdisciplinary methodology that quickly found foothold with other areas of research within dance studies. As a whole, the book makes an important contribution to the theory of modernity. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Pathos Formulas: Body-Image and Danced Figuration

Pathos Formulas: On the Iconography of the Body-Image in Dance 25

1 Dance in the Museum: Body and Memory 31

The Break with Tradition and the Collapse of Memory: The Cultural Crisis around 1900. Hofmannsthal's Lord Chandos Letter, Read with Botho Strauβ 31

The Dancer in the Museum: The Birth of Modern Dance from the Archives of Classical Antiquity 38

Dance of Antiquity and Modernity: Maurice Emmanuel 43

The Vitalist Interpretation of Greek Sculpture: Genevieve Stebbins 46

The Body in Search of Greek Antiquity: Isadora Duncan 52

Antiquity and Renaissance: Alexander Sakharoff s Dance Sketches 56

Dance in the Hall of Statues: Isadora Duncan and Mata Hari 63

The Dance Theater as Dance Museum: The Théâtre Loïe Fuller 68

The Theater as an Archive of Gesture 70

Dance of the Statues: Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Moments in Greece" 73

2 Patterns of Femininity and the Body-Image of Dance 89

Drapery in Motion: Dance Dress and Dance Reform 90

Dress Reform and Women's Bodies 90

Mode et Modernité 94

Drapery in Motion: Fabrics of Dance and Patterns of Textu(r)al Production 96

Shawl and Veil 97

Draped Folds: The Veils and Dance Gowns of Mariano Fortuny 99

Marcel Proust: The Prisoner 109

Gabriele DAnnunzio: Forse che si forse che no 111

Body-Image I: The Model of Antiquity 114

Primavera, or The Dance of the Graces 115

Nike, or Dance of the Future 124

The Dance of the Maenad 143

Body-Image II: Exoticism 165

"Dance of the Bees" 167

Stasia Napierkowska: Pas de l'Abeille 172

Gabriele D'Annunzio: Isabellas "Bee Dance" 176

The Dance of Salome 180

3 Delirium of Movement and Trance Dance 199

"Whirling Dance": Movements of Self-Dissolution 200

Ritual and Trance 200

Trance Dance; "Orgiasm" and Hypnosis 202

Whirling Dances: From Dance of the Dervishes to Expressionistic Dance 206

Fire Dance: Movement Patterns of Metamorphosis 223

Hofmannsthal's Plectra 227

Rilke's "Spanish Dancer" 230

Valéry's Dance and the Soul 232

4 The Dancer as Muse 236

The Pathos Formulas of Paul Valéry's Inspiratrice 236

In the Laboratory of Signs: Biomechanics and Poetics of Dance in the Writings of Paul Valéry 238

Muse-Medusa: Dance as a Medium of Metamorphosis 247

Pathos of Repose 253

The Dancer, Who Doesn't Dance 253

Part II Topos Formulas: Dance Movement and Figurations of Space

Labyrinth and Spiral 258

Labyrinth 259

Spiral 263

1 Dance Costume and Movement Space: Spatial Formulas and Their Metamorphoses into Fabric 269

Loïe Fuller and Stéphane Mallarmé 271

Mariano Fortuny and Gabriele D'Annunzio 277

Léon Bakst and Carl Einstein 284

Oskar Schlemmer and the "Spatial-Plastic" Costume 289

2 Dance-Text: Transformations of Choreography 298

The Female Body and Abstract Dance: Toward an Ambivalence of Interpretation 299

Valentine de Saint-Point's Métachorie 301

Dance as Line and Text: The Métachorie Manifesto 306

Cérébrisme and the Aesthetics of Lust 307

Gesamtkunstwerk or Multicentric Production 309

Ciphers of Dance 312

3 Aerodance: Futurist Dance and Aviation 314

The Aesthetics of Futurist Dance 315

Futurist Dance as Pantomime of Flight: Marinetti's Dance of the Aviatrix 320

Aerodanza 326

"Mots en liberté aériens": Flight and Writing 334

Ellipse and Spiral: The Rhetoric of the Spatial Formula 339

4 Writing Dance and Spatial Writing: Between Alphabet and Topos Formula 345

Lettres dansantes: Michel Fokine's Ballet Carnaval 347

Lettres dansantes: Akarovas Choreography 347

Corporeal Writing and Spatial Signs: Rudolf von Labarfs Kinetography 354

5 Interruption. Intermediality and Disjunction in the Movement Concepts of Avant-Garde Dance and Theater 362

Cinematic Segmentation of Movement: Charlie Chaplin, Vsevolod

Meyerhold, Valeska Gert 366

Valeska Gert: "Cinematic Dance" and the Grotesque 371

Relâche: Interruption as a Structural Principle in Dance, Theater, and Film 375.

Notes:

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199916559

0199916551

9780199916573

0199916578

OCLC:

892700248