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.

Physical Description:

x, 283 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work offers fresh histories and theoretical inquiries that resonate across fields of the humanities. 16 essays range from 18th-century theatre dance to popular contemporary dances in global circulation.

Contents:

Introduction : new dance studies/new German cultural studies / Susan Manning and Lucia Ruprecht

Affect, discourse, and dance before 1900 / Christina Thurner

Lola Montez and Spanish dance in the 19th Century / Claudia Jeschke

Picturing Palucca at the Bauhaus / Susan Funkenstein

Rudolf Laban's Dance Film Projects / Susanne Franco

Hanya Holm and an American / Tanzgemeinschaft Tresa Randall

Lotte Goslar's clowns / Karen Mozingo

Back again? Valeska Gert's exiles / Kate Elswit

Was bleibt? The politics of East German dance / Marion Kant

Warfare over realism : Tanztheater in East Germany, 1966-1989 / Franz Anton Cramer

Moving against disappearance : East German bodies in contemporary choreography / Jens Richard Giersdorf

Pina Bausch, Mary Wigman, and the aesthetic of "being moved" / Sabine Huschka

Negotiating choreography, letter, and law in William Forsythe / Gerald Siegmund

Engagements with the past in contemporary dance / Yvonne Hardt

Lecture performance as contemporary dance / Maaike Bleeker

Toward a theory of cultural translation in dance / Gabriele Klein.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-58272-4

9786613895172

0-252-09386-0

OCLC:

1157465832