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This book investigates the role Nietzsche's dance images play in his project of revaluing all values alongside the religious rhetoric and subject matter evident in the work of Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, who found justification and guidance in Nietzsche's texts for developing dance as a medium of religious expression.

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'In this fascinating and important book, LaMothe addresses Christianity's hostility toward dance, an opposition between dance and religion reinforced by scholarship that consistently ignores one or the other...' - Margaret R. Miles, Emerita Professor, The Graduate Theological Union

LaMothe's succulent attention to the phenomenology of dance technique draws persuasive power from beyond the writing itself.  Nietzsche's Dancers is not only a study in the recreation of religious values; it is an expression of the bodily conditions it explores.  And, in this regard, the joyous engagement expressed on every page refers readers to lived practices of kinetic fluency as the basis for affirmation of life. -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion    Strangely, Christianity, the religion of the incarnation--the Word made flesh --has failed to develop the implications of the intimate relationship between incarnation and dance. In this fascinating and important book, LaMothe addresses Christianity's hostility toward dance, an opposition between dance and religion reinforced by scholarship that consistently ignores one or the other. LaMothe shows that the dancers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham responded to Nietzsche's advocacy for a dancing rel

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KIMERER LAMOTHE is a philosopher, dancer, and scholar of religion who taught modern Western philosophy and theology for six years at Brown and then Harvard Universities.

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