Mary Anne Santos Newhall

Mary Wigman (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A dancer, teacher and choreographer, Mary Wigman was a leading innovator in Expressionist dance. Her radical explorations of movement and dance theory are credited with expanding the scope of dance as a theatrical art in her native Germany and beyond. As a ¿rst step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351331814
• Artikelnr.: 50518936

Autorenporträt

Mary Anne Santos Newhall is Professor Emerita of Dance at the University of New Mexico, where she also served as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine Arts. She is also Research Director for the American Dance Legacy Initiative at Brown University.

Inhaltsangabe

MARY WIGMAN: A LIFE IN DANCE

Prologue: why Mary Wigman? Introduction

Childhood

The beginning of a life in dance Dalcroze and the garden city of Hellerau Return to ritual on the mountain of truth Dancing Dada

The crisis year

The gilded and tarnished twenties The First Dancers' Congress

The Second Dancers' Congress The Third Dancers' Congress Coming to the United States Der Weg (The Path)

Returning to the new Germany Dancing in Dresden, 1933-1942 Leaving Dresden

To Berlin

MARY WIGMAN'S WRITINGS ON THE DANCE: A PHILOSOPHY EMBODIED

Introduction



The Language of Dance Philosophical context Why a new dance?

Primitively modern

Spannung and Entspannung Space

Time, music, rhythm



The Mary Wigman Book



What did Wigman mean by ecstasy and form? Apollonian and Dionysian

Ideas on composition and the choreographic theme

Who has inherited the emotive dance lineage of Mary Wigman?

MARY WIGMAN AS CHOREOGRAPHER: CHOOSING THE FOCUS

Solo as signature: Hexentanz The mask as doorway Hexentanz: a description Group dance



The Seven Dances of Life (1921) Choric dance



Totenmal (1930) Final solo concert

PRACTICAL EXERCISES

Class at the Mary Wigman School Discovering the eloquent body

Wigman movement qualities in practice What makes the dance?

Space

Dance as language

Speaking beyond the individual body

Composition: improvisation and developing a theme

One final theme