Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes (Oxford Studies in Dance Theory)

When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in the form of avant-garde theatrical and movement productions of the early twentieth-century. Author Gabriele Brandstetter established in this book not only a relation between dance and critical theory, but in fact a full interdisciplinary methodology that quickly found foothold with other areas of research within dance studies. The book looks at dance at the beginnings of the 20th century, the time during which modern dance first began to make its radical departure from the aesthetics of classical ballet. Brandstetter traces modern dance's connection to new innovations and trends in visual and literary arts to argue that modern dance is in fact the preeminent symbol of modernity. As Brandstetter demonstrates, the aesthetic renewal of dance vocabulary which was pursued by modern dancers on both sides of the Atlantic - Isadora Duncan and Loie Fuller, Valeska Gert and Oskar Schlemmer, Vaslav Nijinsky and Michel Fokine - unfurled itself in new ideas about gender and subjectivity in the arts more generally, thus reflecting the modern experience of life and the self-understanding of the individual as an individual. As a whole, the book makes an important contribution to the theory of modernity.

Arts & Photography

Brandstetter, Gabriele

Performing Arts

Oxford University Press

The Aging Body in Dance: A cross-cultural perspective

What does it mean to be able to move?  The Aging Body in Dance brings together leading scholars and artists from a range of backgrounds to investigate cultural ideas of movement and beauty, expressiveness and agility.   Contributors focus on Euro-American and Japanese attitudes towards aging and performance, including studies of choreographers, dancers and directors from Yvonne Rainer, Martha Graham, Anna Halprin and Roemeo Castellucci to Kazuo Ohno and Kikuo Tomoeda. They draw a fascinating comparison between youth-oriented Western cultures and dance cultures like Japan’s, where aging performers are celebrated as part of the country’s living heritage. The first cross-cultural study of its kind, The Aging Body in Dance offers a vital resource for scholars and practitioners interested in global dance cultures and their differing responses to the world's aging population.

Nakajima, Nanako

Reference

Routledge

Tanz-Lektüren: Körperbilder und Raumfiguren der Avantgarde (ZeitSchriften Fischer) (German Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag

Contributions by Gertrud Koch, Bruce Mau. Text by Aleida Assman, Jan Assman, Gabriele Brandstetter, Friedrich Kittler, Andra Lepecki, C. Nadia Seremetakis.

ReMembering the Body: Body and Movement in the 20th

Lepecki, André

Seremetakis, C. Nadia

Kittler, Friedrich

Assman, Aleida

Assman, Jan

Decorative Arts & Design

Hatje Cantz Publishers

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