Gestural Imaginaries
Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century
Series: Oxford Studies in Dance Theory;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 July 2019
- ISBN 9780190659387
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 234x155x22 mm
- Weight 612 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 26 images 0
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Gestural Imaginaries offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy.
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Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Taking further Cornelius Castoriadis's concept of the social imaginary, it explores this imaginary's embodied forms. Close readings of dances, photographs, and literary texts are juxtaposed with discussions of gestural theory by thinkers including Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, and Aby Warburg. Choreographic gesture is defined as a force of intermittency that creates a new theoretical status of dance. Author Lucia Ruprecht shows how this also bears on contemporary theory. She shifts emphasis from Giorgio Agamben's preoccupation with gestural mediality to Jacques Rancière's multiplicity of proliferating, singular gestures, arguing for their ethical and political relevance. Mobilizing dance history and movement analysis, Ruprecht highlights the critical impact of works by choreographers such as Vaslav Nijinsky, Jo Mihaly, and Alexander and Clotilde Sakharoff. She also offers choreographic readings of Franz Kafka and Alfred Döblin. Gestural Imaginaries proposes that modernist dance conducts a gestural revolution which enacts but also exceeds the insights of past and present cultural theory. It makes a case for archive-based, cross-medial, and critically informed dance studies, transnational German studies, and the theoretical potential of performance itself.
This study makes a vigorous case for the continually growing analytical possibilities of dance studies and demonstrates the richness it can find in German studies.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Mark Franko
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Inaugurating Gestures: Le Sacre du printemps
Introduction: Gestural Imaginaries
1. A Second Gestural Revolution and Gesturing Hands in Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, Mary Wigman, and Tilly Losch
2. Gestures of Vibrating (Interruption) in Rudolf von Laban, Mary Wigman, and Walter Benjamin
3. Conducts and Codes of Gesture in Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka
4. Gestural (In)visibility in Béla Balázs and Helmuth Plessner
5. Gestures Between Symptom and Symbol in Aby Warburg and Sigmund Freud
6. Gestures Between the Auratic and the Profane: Niddy Impekoven's and Franz Kafka's Reenactments of Liturgy
7. Gestural Drag: Baroquism and Modernist Minstrelsy in Alexander and Clotilde Sakharoff
8. Floral Pathochoreographies: Mime Studies by Harald Kreutzberg, Alfred Döblin, and Jo Mihaly
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
