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Zusatztext In Watching Weimar Dance, Kate Elswit takes the traditional 'obstacles' of dance history - the fragmentary archive, ephemeral performances, and unstable objects - and transforms them into its very strengths. Approaching Weimar dance as a series of eventful and relational encounters, in which spectators contributed as much to the generation of meaning as the performers themselves, the book rediscovers modern dance both as a specific medium and as a forum shot through with broader issues of visual and corporeal culture. Informationen zum Autor Kate Elswit is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Bristol. She was awarded the Gertrude Lippincott Award from the Society of Dance History Scholars and the Sally Banes Publication Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research, and her essays have been published in TDR: The Drama Review, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Art Journal, Performance Research and in the edited collection New German Dance Studies. She also works as a choreographer, curator, and dramaturg. Klappentext Watching Weimar Dance historicizes and theorizes the spectatorship of dances in and from interwar Germany - at home, on tour, and later returning from exile - developing a culturally-situated model of watching that not only offers a revisionist historical narrative, but also demonstrates new methods for dance scholarship to shape cultural history. Zusammenfassung Watching Weimar Dance historicizes and theorizes the spectatorship of dances in and from interwar Germany - at home, on tour, and later returning from exile - developing a culturally-situated model of watching that not only offers a revisionist historical narrative, but also demonstrates new methods for dance scholarship to shape cultural history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Impossible Spectacles: Death, Dance, and Direct Expression; 2 Imagining the Dancing Machine; 3 Three Stories about Private Parts; 4 The Politics of Watching: Staging Sacrifice Across the Atlantic; 5 Watching After Weimar; Coda; Index...
