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020 _a9781137034878 (paperback)
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050 _aPN2189
_b.S66 2015
082 _a792.0904
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100 1 _aSörgel, Sabine,
_eauthor.
_912524
245 1 0 _aDance and the body in Western theatre :
_b1948 to the present /
_cSabine Sörgel.
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2015.
264 4 _c©2015
300 _axiv, 223 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aMacmillan education
501 _aP.B
501 _aP.B
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 206-216) and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. The Body, Dance and Phenomenology -- 2. Writing Dance into Theatre: Antonin Artaud's Affective Athleticism -- 3. Choreographing Gestus: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) and the Evolution of Epic Theatre -- 4. Dancing the Wrong Side Out: Archetype in Martha Graham (1894-1991) and Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999) -- 5. Resurrecting the Dancing Chorus in the 1960s: Peter Brook's Marat/Sade (1964), The Living Theatre's Antigone (1967) and Richard Schechner's Dionysus in 69 (1969) -- 6. Dance and the 1960s Counter-Culture: Merce Cunningham, Anna Halprin and Postmodern Dance -- 7. Un-Masking the Social Mask in Post-War Tanztheater: Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Sasha Waltz -- 8. From Decolonization to Globalization: Discourses of Freedom and Emancipation in Wole Soyinka, Alvin Ailey, Bill T. Jones, Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui -- 9. Phenomenological Encounters: Theatre, Dance and Human Rights -- Bibliography.
520 _a"The mid to late twentieth century has been widely regarded as the century of the body, when philosophers, cultural critics, sociologists, and theatre historians spent inordinate amounts of time and energy locating, dissecting, and celebrating the body in performance. While the body appears in almost all cultural discourses, it is nowhere as visible or as exposed as in dance and yet dance is rarely considered in theatre histories. This book captures the resurgence of the dancing body in the aftermath of World War Two. Thought-provoking and easy to follow, the text provides students with several key phenomenological, kinaesthetic and psychological concepts relevant to both theatre and dance studies. Photographs and study questions feature at the end of each chapter, providing context for students and a starting point for further research"--
650 0 _aDance
_xHistory
_y20th century.
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650 0 _aHuman body
_xSymbolic aspects.
_912526
650 0 _aMovement, Aesthetics of.
650 0 _aTheater
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_912527
650 7 _aPERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General.
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650 7 _aPERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern.
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650 7 _aPERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General.
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