Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes

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. A scholar of widespread international recognition, Gabriele Brandstetter is Professor for Theatre and Dance Studies at the Freie Universitat Berlin, where she founded and directs the Centre for Movement Studies. She is also co-director of the International Research Center Interweaving Performance Cultures. She is author of three scholarly books and editor or co-editor of ten scholarly books on dance and movement. 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

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