the dances of Mary Wigman
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Manning, Susan
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- DUI 9 WIG 2006
- Thesaurus
- dans, nationaal socialisme, fascisme, interbellum, Duitsland
- Description
- Originally published as: Ecstasy and the demon: feminism and nationalism in the dances of Mary Wigman (1993) 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 an explanation for the collaboration between German modern dancers and National Socialism. She models methods for dance studies that contextualize choreography in relation to changing political conditions. The introduction to this second edition brings Manning’s 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.