ECSTASY AND THE DEMON by Susan Manning ( 9780816638024 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

ECSTASY AND THE DEMON
THE DANCES OF MARY WIGMAN

By:

Susan Manning

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0816638020

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9780816638024

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Pub. date:

8 November, 2006

Edition:

Gorgias Press and Us and Updated to Include New Develop and

Pages:

376

Description:

Winner of the 1994 de la Torre Bueno Prize - with an introduction by the author.

Synopsis:

Mary Wigman, Germany's premier dancer between the two world wars, envisioned the performer in the thrall of ecstatic and demonic forces. Widely hailed as an innovator of dance modernism, she never acknowledged her complex relationship with National Socialism. In Ecstasy and the Demon, Susan Manning advances a sociological explanation for the collaboration between German modern dancers and National Socialism. She models methods for dance studies that contextualize choreography in relation to changing sociopolitical conditions, bringing dance scholarship into conversation with intellectual trends across the humanities.The introduction to this second edition brings Manning's groundbreaking work to bear on dance studies today and reconsiders Wigman's career from the perspective of queer theory and globalization, further illuminating the interplay of dance and politics in the twentieth century.Susan Manning is professor of English, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University.

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University of Minnesota Press

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