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Poetics of Dance - Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes (Hardcover)
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Poetics of Dance - Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
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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.
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