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Dance and the body in western theatre : 1948 to the present / Sabine Sörgel.
Author
Sörgel, Sabine
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Palgrave Macmillian, 2015.
Description
xiv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
PN2189 .S66 2015
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Subject(s)
Theater
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History
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20th century
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Dance
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History
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20th century
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Human body
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Symbolic aspects
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Movement, Aesthetics of.
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Summary note
"The mid to late twentieth century has been widely regarded as the century of the body, when philosophers, cultural critics, sociologists, and theatre historians spent inordinate amounts of time and energy locating, dissecting, and celebrating the body in performance. While the body appears in almost all cultural discourses, it is nowhere as visible or as exposed as in dance and yet dance is rarely considered in theatre histories. This book captures the resurgence of the dancing body in the aftermath of World War Two. Thought-provoking and easy to follow, the text provides students with several key phenomenological, kinaesthetic and psychological concepts relevant to both theatre and dance studies. Photographs and study questions feature at the end of each chapter, providing context for students and a starting point for further research"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-217) and index.
Contents
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Acknowledgements
Preface
1. The Body, Dance and Phenomenology
2. Writing Dance into Theatre: Antonin Artaud's Affective Athleticism
3. Choreographing Gestus: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) and the Evolution of Epic Theatre
4. Dancing the Wrong Side Out: Archetype in Martha Graham (1894-1991) and Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999)
5. Resurrecting the Dancing Chorus in the 1960s: Peter Brook's Marat/Sade (1964), The Living Theatre's Antigone (1967) and Richard Schechner's Dionysus in 69 (1969)
6. Dance and the 1960s Counter-Culture: Merce Cunningham, Anna Halprin and Postmodern Dance
7. Un-Masking the Social Mask in Post-War Tanztheater: Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Sasha Waltz
8. From Decolonization to Globalization: Discourses of Freedom and Emancipation in Wole Soyinka, Alvin Ailey, Bill T. Jones, Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
9. Phenomenological Encounters: Theatre, Dance and Human Rights
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ISBN
9781137034878 (paperback)
1137034874 (paperback)
9781137034885
1137034882
LCCN
2015023909
OCLC
909320548
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