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Author: Susan Manning ,
Lucia Ruprecht ,
Maaike Bleeker ,
Franz Anton Cramer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.399kg
ISBN: 9780252078439
ISBN 10: 0252078438
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 21 May 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
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 marvellous 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 have 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, co-editor of Writing against the Boundaries: Nationality, Ethnicity, and Gender in 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 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
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
Author Information
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.
