New German Dance Studies offers fresh histories and theoretical inquiries that resonate across fields of the humanities. Sixteen essays range from eighteenth-century theater dance to popular contemporary dances in global circulation. In an exquisite trans-Atlantic dialogue that demonstrates the complexity and multilayered history of German dance, American and European scholars and artists elaborate on definitive performers and choreography, focusing on three major thematic areas: Weimar culture and its afterlife, the German Democratic Republic, and recent conceptual trends in theater dance. Contributors are Maaike Bleeker, Franz Anton Cramer, Kate Elswit, Susanne Franco, Susan Funkenstein, Jens Richard Giersdorf, Yvonne Hardt, Sabine Huschka, Claudia Jeschke, Marion Kant, Gabriele Klein, Karen Mozingo, Tresa Randall, Gerald Siegmund, and Christina Thurner.
CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgments Susan Manning and Lucia RuprechtContributor's AcknowledgmentsIntroduction New Dance Studies/New German Cultural Studies Susan Manning and Lucia Ruprecht1. Affect, Discourse, and Dance before 1900 Christina Thurner2. Lola Montez and Spanish Dance in the 19th Century Claudia Jeschke3. Picturing Palucca at the Bauhaus Susan Funkenstein4. Rudolf Laban's Dance Film Projects Susanne Franco5. Hanya Holm and an American Tanzgemeinschaft Tresa Randall6. Lotte Goslar's Clowns Karen Mozingo7. Back Again? Valeska Gert's Exiles Kate Elswit8. Was bleibt? The Politics of East German Dance Marion Kant9. Warfare over Realism Tanztheater in East Germany, 1966-1989 Franz Anton Cramer10. Moving against Disappearance East German Bodies in Contemporary Choreography Jens Richard Giers11. Pina Bausch, Mary Wigman, and the Aesthetic of "Being Moved" Sabine Huschka12. Negotiating Choreography, Letter, and Law in William Forsythe Gerald Siegmund13. Engagements with the Past in Contemporary Dance Yvonne Hardt14. Lecture Performance as Contemporary Dance Maaike Bleeker15. Toward a Theory of Cultural Translation in Dance Gabriele KleinContributorsIndex
