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The Body of the People : East German Dance since 1945 /
This book is a study of dance and choreography in East Germany. More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the author takes a look at the national dance history in the German Democratic Republic, from its founding as a Communist state that supplanted the Soviet zone of occupation in 1...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is a study of dance and choreography in East Germany. More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the author takes a look at the national dance history in the German Democratic Republic, from its founding as a Communist state that supplanted the Soviet zone of occupation in 1949 through the aftermath of its collapse forty years later, examining complex themes of nationhood, ideology, resistance, and diaspora through an innovative mix of archival research, critical theory, personal narrative, and performance analysis. The author looks closely at uniquely East German dance forms - including mass exercise events, national folk dances, Marxist-Leninist visions staged by the dance ensemble of the armed forces, the vast amateur dance culture, East Germany's version of Tanztheater, and socialist alternatives to rock 'n' roll - to demonstrate how dance was used both as a form of corporeal utopia and of embodied socialist propaganda and indoctrination. The book also explores the artists working in the shadow of official culture who used dance and movement to critique and resist state power, notably Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Arila Siegert, and Fine Kwiatkowski. This book considers a myriad of embodied responses to the Communist state even after reunification, analyzing the embodiment of the fall of the Berlin Wall in the works of Jo Fabian and Sasha Waltz, and the diasporic traces of East German culture abroad, exemplified by the Chilean choreographer Patricio Bunster. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (248 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780299289638 |