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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785762603321

Titolo

New German dance studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Susan Manning and Lucia Ruprecht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-58272-4

9786613895172

0-252-09386-0

Descrizione fisica

x, 283 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

ManningSusan

RuprechtLucia <1972->

Disciplina

793.31943

Soggetti

Dance - Germany

Dance - Study and teaching - Germany

Dance - Social aspects - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.