Author: Mary Wigman
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 9780819560933
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Author: Mary Wigman
Publisher: Middletown, Conn : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819560377
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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A noted German dancer and choreographer reveals the personal states of mind and soul that accompanied the creation of her major works

Author: Mary Wigman
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299190743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Mary Wigman's groundbreaking choreography and inspired performing in Germany during the 1910s and 1920s brought modern dance into dialogue with modern painting, theatre and film. This collection of vivid letters are a treasury of information about art, politics and the friendships of women.

Author: Mary Wigman
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Author: Susan Manning
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816637362
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Two traditionally divided strains of American dance, Modern Dance and Negro Dance, are linked through photographs, reviews, film, and oral history, resulting in a unique view of the history of American dance.

Author: Dee Reynolds
Publisher: Dance Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Mary Wigman, Martha Graham & Merce Cunningham are key choreographers of the 20th & 21st centuries, whose rhythmic innovations challenge established norms of energy usage in their socio-cultural contexts, enabling their contemporaries to engage differently with dominant economies of energy.

Author: Susan Manning
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816638024
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Mary Wigman, Germany’s premier dancer between the two world wars, envisioned the performer in the thrall of ecstatic and demonic forces. Widely hailed as an innovator of dance modernism, she never acknowledged her complex relationship with National Socialism. In Ecstasy and the Demon, Susan Manning advances a sociological explanation for the collaboration between German modern dancers and National Socialism. She models methods for dance studies that contextualize choreography in relation to changing sociopolitical conditions, bringing dance scholarship into conversation with intellectual trends across the humanities. The introduction to this second edition brings Manning’s groundbreaking work to bear on dance studies today and reconsiders Wigman’s career from the perspective of queer theory and globalization, further illuminating the interplay of dance and politics in the twentieth century. Susan Manning is professor of English, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University.

Author: Susan Manning
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025203676X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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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.

Author: Valerie Preston-Dunlop
Publisher: Dance Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Translations from German of articles published in Schrifttanz, late '20s and early '30s, accompanied by new editorial material.

Author: Lilian Karina
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571816887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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The Nazis burned books and banned much modern art. However, few people know the fascinating story of German modern dance, which was the great exception. Modern expressive dance found favor with the regime and especially with the infamous Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. How modern artists collaborated with Nazism reveals an important aspect of modernism, uncovers the bizarre bureaucracy which controlled culture and tells the histories of great figures who became enthusiastic Nazis and lied about it later. The book offers three perspectives: the dancer Lilian Karina writes her very vivid personal story of dancing in interwar Germany; the dance historian Marion Kant gives a systematic account of the interaction of modern dance and the totalitarian state, and a documentary appendix provides a glimpse into the twisted reality created by Nazi racism, pedantic bureaucrats and artistic ambition.