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: List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface 1. The Body, Dance and Phenomenology 2. Writing Dance into Theatre: Antonin Artaud's Affective Athleticism 3. Choreographing Gestus: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) and the Evolution of Epic Theatre 4. Dancing the Wrong Side Out: Archetype in Martha Graham (1894-1991) and Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999) 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 Counter-Culture: Merce Cunningham, Anna Halprin and Postmodern Dance 7. Un-Masking the Social Mask in Post-War Tanztheater: Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Sasha Waltz 8. 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (233 pages)
• Subjects: Performing Arts -- Dance -- General; Dance
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350316454; 1350316458
• Related ISBNs: 9781137034878
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• 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.