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1 online resource |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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._x000B__x000B_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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
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Dance -- Germany.
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Dance. |
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Germany. |
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Dance -- Study and teaching -- Germany.
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Dance -- Study and teaching. |
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Dance -- Social aspects -- Germany.
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Dance -- Social aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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Manning, Susan.
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Ruprecht, Lucia, 1972-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: New German dance studies Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012] 9780252036767 (hardcover : alk. paper) (DLC) 2011035701 |
| ISBN |
9780252036767 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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025203676X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780252078439 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0252078438 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780252093869 (ebook) |
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0252093860 |
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9786613895172 |
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6613895172 |
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1283582724 |
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9781283582728 |
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9786613895172 |
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