Gestural imaginaries : dance and cultural theory in the early twentieth century /

Gestural Imaginaries offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruprecht, Lucia, 1972- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Series:Oxford studies in dance theory.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A second gestural revolution and gesturing hands in Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, Mary Wigman, and Tilly Losch
  • Gestures of vibrating (interruption) in Rudolf von Laban, mary Wigman, and Walter Benjamin
  • Conducts and codes of gesture in Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka
  • Gestural (in)visibility in Béla Balázs and Helmuth Plessner
  • Gestures between symptom and symbol in Aby Warburg and Sigmund Freud
  • Gestures between the auratic and the profane : Niddy Impekoven's and Franz Kafka's reenactments of liturgy
  • Gestural drag : baroquism and modernist minstrelsy in alexander and clotilde sakharoff
  • Floral pathochoreographies : mime studies by Harald Kreutzberg, Alfred Döblin, and Jo Mihaly.