Poetics of dance : body, image, and space in the historical avant-gardes /
'Poetics of Dance' 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. Author Gabriele Brandstetter traces modern dance's connection to new innovations and trends in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in dance theory.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Pathos formulas : body-image and danced figuration. Dance in the museum : body and memory ; Patterns of femininity and the body-image of dance ; Delirium of movement and trance dance ; The dancer as muse
- Topos formulas : dance movement and figurations of space. Dance costume and movement space : spatial formulas and their metamorphoses into fabric ; Dance-text : transformations of choreography ; Aerodance : futurist dance and aviation ; Writing dance and spatial writing : between alphabet and topos formula ; Interruption : intermediality and disjunction in the movement concepts of avant-garde dance and theater.