Dancing with the Modernist City: Metropolitan Dance Texts around 1900

Author:   Wesley Lim
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
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9780472133307


Pages:   324
Publication Date:   31 July 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Wesley Lim
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
ISBN:  

9780472133307


ISBN 10:   0472133306
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   31 July 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Perceiving the City as Dancing Entity: Conceptions of Writing the Metropolitan Dance Text Chapter 2: Swirling Affinities: Endell’s and Fuller’s Architecture, City Space, and Dance Chapter 3: From Spectator to Practitioner: Developing Harry Graf Kessler’s Queer Dance Aesthetic Chapter 4: Bridging Representations of Gesture, Gesticulation and Early Twentieth-Century Dance in the City: Rilke’s VeitstÄnzer in The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Chapter 5: Documenting the Demise of Ballet and the Emergence of Modern Dance in the Hospital: DÖblin’s Early Texts on Dance and Space Chapter 6: Cabarets, Cafes, and Cities: The Birth of Early Twentieth-Century Dance in Lasker-SchÜler’s Writing and Drawings Chapter 7: From Drawings to Early Cinema: Lasker-SchÜler’s Protocinematic Images and Experimental Films of ChomÓn and the Skladanowsky Brothers Coda Bibliography Index

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Wesley Lim is Lecturer in German Studies at the Australian National University.

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