New German Dance Studies

Susan Manning is a professor of English, theatre, and performance studies at Northwestern University and the author of Ecstasy and the Demon: The Dances of Mary Wigman.Lucia Ruprecht teaches German literature and culture at Cambridge University and is the author of Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Heinrich Heine.

"Regardless of the areas within which we teach or practice, this book has something valuable to contribute. . . . A remarkable body of work in German dance over the past three centuries."--Journal of Dance Education"How exciting it is to have this elegantly organized collection of new theories of dance, performance, and culture as they are being developed in Germany. The field urgently needs this anthology, which gives readers a marvelous grasp of the complex history of German dance and the new methodologies that are being developed there."--Susan Leigh Foster, author of Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance"New German Dance Studies fills a research gap in English-speaking countries regarding the direction dance studies has taken in a German context. A useful compendium of the various personalities and new theories about how to approach modern research in the field."--Helga Kraft, coeditor of Writing against Boundaries: Nationality, Ethnicity, and Gender in the German-speaking Context"Rich in illuminating historical detail. . . . pulsating with freshness of perception, and very well documented with abundant and quite valuable endnotes." --H-German

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgments Susan Manning and Lucia RuprechtContributor's AcknowledgmentsIntroduction New Dance Studies/New German Cultural Studies Susan Manning and Lucia Ruprecht1. Affect, Discourse, and Dance before 1900 Christina Thurner2. Lola Montez and Spanish Dance in the 19th Century Claudia Jeschke3. Picturing Palucca at the Bauhaus Susan Funkenstein4. Rudolf Laban's Dance Film Projects Susanne Franco5. Hanya Holm and an American Tanzgemeinschaft Tresa Randall6. Lotte Goslar's Clowns Karen Mozingo7. Back Again? Valeska Gert's Exiles Kate Elswit8. Was bleibt? The Politics of East German Dance Marion Kant9. Warfare over Realism Tanztheater in East Germany, 1966–1989 Franz Anton Cramer10. Moving against Disappearance East German Bodies in Contemporary Choreography Jens Richard Giers11. Pina Bausch, Mary Wigman, and the Aesthetic of "Being Moved" Sabine Huschka12. Negotiating Choreography, Letter, and Law in William Forsythe Gerald Siegmund13. Engagements with the Past in Contemporary Dance Yvonne Hardt14. Lecture Performance as Contemporary Dance Maaike Bleeker15. Toward a Theory of Cultural Translation in Dance Gabriele KleinContributorsIndex