Modern Dance in Germany and the United States: Crosscurrents and Influences

ISBN-13: 9783718655571 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 204 str.

Isa Partsch-Bergsohn;Isa Partsch-Bergsohn

Opis

The United States took the lead in modern dance innovation during the 1960s when artists such as Martha Graham, Josse Limbon, Paul Taylor, Alvin Aeiley and Alwin Nikolais overwhelmed European audiences. Subsequently, the New German Tanztheatre revitalized German theatre traditions with its new content and application of some of the United States modern dance techniques. This book discusses both parallels and distinctions between the history of modern dance in the United States and Germany. This work examines the phenomena of the modern dance movement between 1920 and 1968 in an international context, focusing on its beginnings in Europe and its philosophy as formulated by Dalcroze, Laban, Wigman, and Jooss. The book traces the effects of the Third Reich on these artists as well as their influence on the developing American modern dance movement through the postwar years, with a particular focus on Kurt Jooss and the Tanztheatre.

Spis treści

Chapter I Breaking through to Modernity; Chapter II The Formative Years: the Twenties; Chapter III First Encounters Across The Atlantic; Chapter IV Dance in the Tide of Politics: The Thirties; Chapter V Dance in the Shadow of World War II; chapter VI Dance Following World War II; chapter VII From The Green Table;

O autorze

Isa Partsch-Bergsohn was a former student of May Wigman at the Music Academy in Leipzig during World War II. She completed her diploma in dance pedagogy and choreography under Kurt Jooss at the Folkwang-School, Essen, Germany. The author was Professor of Dance at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and is now on the board of the Faculty of Fine Arts. She has also taught courses in European modem dance at the American Dance Festival at Duke University, North Carolina, at the Laban Centre in London, and at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies in New York.