Poetics of Dance
Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes
Series: Oxford Studies in Dance Theory;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 May 2015
- ISBN 9780199916559
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages456 pages
- Size 160x239x25 mm
- Weight 794 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 54 illustrations 0
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Short description:
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. Author Gabriele 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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Poetics of Dance presents a foundational and original way of thinking about dance while also offering a radical re-evaluation of early twentieth century modernism across dance, literature, theater, and the visual arts. Brandstetter's brilliantly conceived approach to dance analysis foregrounds the intertextual connections among allied cultural practices in new ways through a theory of meaning-making based in spatial and psychic patterning. An invaluable contribution to the field of dance studies, this work will significantly expand our understanding of dance as part of culture and history.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Pathos Formulas. Body-Image and Danced Figuration
1. Dance in the Museum: Body and Memory
2. Patterns of Femininity and the Body-Image of Dance
3. Delirium of Movement and Trance Dance
4. The Dancer as Muse
Part II: Topos Formulas. Dance Movement and Figuration of Space
1. Dance Costume and Movement Space: Spatial Formulas and their Metamorphoses into Fabric
2. Dance-Text. Transformations of Choreography
3. Aerodance. Futurist Dance and Aviation
4. Writing Dance and Spatial Writing. Between Alphabet and Topos Formula
5. Interruption Intermediality and Disjunction in the Movement Concepts of Avant-garde Dance and Theater
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
