Ecstasy and the Demon Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary Wigman

Name: Ecstasy and the Demon Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary Wigman
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ISBN: 9780520081932

ISBN-10: 0520081935

ISBN-13: 9780520081932

Edition: 1993

Authors: Susan A. Manning

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Mary Wigman, Germany's premier modern dancer between the two world wars, envisioned the dancer in the thrall of ecstatic and demonic forces. Transforming the performer into an abstract configuration of energy in space, her works subverted the traditional eroticization of the female dancer. Critics in her own time and historians since have hailed her as a major innovator of dance modernism. What commentators have not acknowledged until recently, however, is her collaboration with the Nazis. Under the Third Reich, Wigman subtly transformed the choreographic themes that had brought her fame during the Weimar Republic. Reverting to more traditional images of the female dancer, her works…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/18/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 353
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.694



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Ideology and Absolute Dance


The Master-Narrative of Absolute Dance


Rewriting the History of Modern Dance



Gestalt im Raum


Wigman's Early Life, 1886-1910


Hellerau and Monte Verita, 1910-1919


Solos, 1914-1919


Group Dances, 1914-1919



Mask and Gemeinschaft


The Wigman School, 1920-1932


Group Dances, 1921-1926


Witch Dance



From Modernism to Fascism


Crisis


Response



Body Politic


Group Dances, 1934-1936


The Wigman School, 1934-1942


Solos, 1937-1942



From Ausdruckstanz to Tanztheater


Wigman's Life and Career, 1942-1973


Dance in Divided Germany, 1973-1989



Mary Wigman and American Dance


The Reception of Wigman's American Tours


Leftists, Humanists, and Hanya Holm


The Postwar Historiography of Modern Dance


Epilogue


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index