Dancing with the modernist city : metropolitan dance texts around 1900

Dancing with the modernist city metropolitan dance texts around 1900

As the 20th century dawned, authors, artists, and filmmakers flocked to cities like Paris and Berlin for a chance to experience a bustling urban life and engage with other artists and intellectuals. Among them were German-speaking authors and filmmakers such as Harry Graf Kessler, Rainer Maria Rilke...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lim, Wesley Ben (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press 2024.
Edition:First edition
Subjects:
Dance > Social aspects > History and criticism > 19th century.
Dance > Social aspects > History and criticism > 20th century.
Sociology, Urban > 19th century.
Sociology, Urban > 20th century.
Cities and towns > Social aspects > 19th century.
Cities and towns > Social aspects > 20th century.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009822979606719
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Perceiving the City as Dancing Entity: Conceptions of Writing the Metropolitan Dance Text
  • 2. Swirling Affinities: Endell's and Fuller's Architecture, City Space, and Dance
  • 3. From Spectator to Practitioner: Developing Harry Graf Kessler's Queer Dance Aesthetic
  • 4. Bridging Representations of Gesture, Gesticulation, and Early-Twentieth-Century Dance in the City: Rilke's Veitstänzer in The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
  • 5. Documenting the Demise of Ballet and the Emergence of Modern Dance in the Hospital: Döblin's Early Texts on Dance and Space
  • 6. Cabarets, Cafés, and Cities: The Birth of Early-Twentieth-Century Dance in Lasker-Schüler's Writing and Drawings
  • 7. From Drawings to Early Cinema: Lasker-Schüler's Protocinematic Images and the Experimental Films of Chomón and the Skladanowsky Brothers
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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