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Author Ruprecht, Lucia, 1972- author.

Title Gestural imaginaries : dance and cultural theory in the early twentieth century / Lucia Ruprecht
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 333 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford studies in dance theory
Oxford studies in dance theory.
Contents A second gestural revolution and gesturing hands in Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, Mary Wigman, and Tilly Losch -- Gestures of vibrating (interruption) in Rudolf von Laban, mary Wigman, and Walter Benjamin -- Conducts and codes of gesture in Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka -- Gestural (in)visibility in Béla Balázs and Helmuth Plessner -- Gestures between symptom and symbol in Aby Warburg and Sigmund Freud -- Gestures between the auratic and the profane : Niddy Impekoven's and Franz Kafka's reenactments of liturgy -- Gestural drag : baroquism and modernist minstrelsy in alexander and clotilde sakharoff -- Floral pathochoreographies : mime studies by Harald Kreutzberg, Alfred Döblin, and Jo Mihaly
Summary Gestural Imaginaries offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on March 27, 2020)
Subject Modern dance -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Choreography -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Gesture in dance
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Choreography.
Gesture in dance.
Modern dance.
Europe.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018053236
ISBN 9780190659400
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9780190659394
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