Dance and the Body in Western Theatre : 1948 to the Present /: 1948 to the Present. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sabine Sörgel.
• Authors: Sörgel, Sabine
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 The Body, Dance and Phenomenology; 2 Writing Dance into Theatre: Antonin Artaud's Affective Athleticism; 3 Choreographing Gestus: Bertolt Brecht and the Evolution of Epic Theatre; 4 Dancing the Wrong Side Out: Archetype in Martha Graham and Jerzy Grotowski; 5 Resurrecting the Dancing Chorus in the 1960s: Peter Brook's Marat/Sade (1964), The Living Theatre's Antigone (1967) and Richard Schechner's Dionysus in 69 (1969); 6 Dance and the 1960s Counterculture: Merce Cunningham, Anne Halprin and Postmodern Dance. 7 Unmasking the Social Mask in Post-War Tanztheater: Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Sasha Waltz8 From Decolonization to Globalization: Discourses of Freedom and Emancipation in Wole Soyinka, Alvin Ailey, Bill T. Jones, Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui; 9 Phenomenological Encounters: Theatre, Dance and Human Rights; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 792.0904; Culture-Study and teaching; Theater -- History -- 20th century; Dance -- History -- 20th century; Human body -- Symbolic aspects; Movement, Aesthetics of; Dance/General; Dance/Modern; Theatre studies; Contemporary dance; PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General; Dance; Human body -- Symbolic aspects; Movement, Aesthetics of; Theater; Tanz; Dance; Performing Arts -- Dance -- General; Dance; Westliche Welt; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137034892; 1137034890
• Related ISBNs: 9781137180087; 1137180080; 1137034890; 1137034874; 1137034882; 9781137034878; 9781137034885
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-216) and index.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.