The Body of the People : East German Dance since 1945 /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giersdorf, Jens Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tanz
Dance.
PERFORMING ARTS > Dance > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Dance > Modern.
PERFORMING ARTS > Dance > Classical & Ballet.
Danse > Allemagne (Est) > Histoire.
Dance > Germany (East) > History.
Deutschland > DDR
Germany (East)
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Spectacles between Utopia and Ostalgie
  • Dancing National Identity in Daily Life : A New German Folk (1945-61)
  • East German Tanztheater : Reconsidering Socialist Realism and Modernism (1960s and 1970s)
  • Resistive Motions in the East : Rechoreographing Opposition (1980s)
  • Border Crossings and Intranational Trespasses : The Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989-2009)
  • Toward a Transnational History of East German Dance : The Choreography of Patricio Bunster (1930s to Present).

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