Ecstasy and the Demon

Ecstasy and the Demon
Title Ecstasy and the Demon PDF eBook
Author Susan Manning
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages 400
Release 2006
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780816638024

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Mary Wigman, Germany’s premier dancer between the two world wars, envisioned the performer in the thrall of ecstatic and demonic forces. Widely hailed as an innovator of dance modernism, she never acknowledged her complex relationship with National Socialism. In Ecstasy and the Demon, Susan Manning advances a sociological explanation for the collaboration between German modern dancers and National Socialism. She models methods for dance studies that contextualize choreography in relation to changing sociopolitical conditions, bringing dance scholarship into conversation with intellectual trends across the humanities. The introduction to this second edition brings Manning’s groundbreaking work to bear on dance studies today and reconsiders Wigman’s career from the perspective of queer theory and globalization, further illuminating the interplay of dance and politics in the twentieth century. Susan Manning is professor of English, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University.

Ecstasy and the Demon

Ecstasy and the Demon
Title Ecstasy and the Demon PDF eBook
Author Susan Manning
Publisher
Total Pages 353
Release 2006
Genre Choreographers
ISBN 9780816692811

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Dancing Women

Dancing Women
Title Dancing Women PDF eBook
Author Sally Banes
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 294
Release 2013-11-05
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1134833180

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Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by - and that in part shape - society's continuing debates about sexuality and female identity. Broad in its scope and compelling in its argument Dancing Women: * provides a series of re-readings of the canon, from Romantic and Russian Imperial ballet to contemporary ballet and modern dance * investigates the gaps between plot and performance that create sexual and gendered meanings * examines how women's agency is created in dance through aspects of choreographic structure and style * analyzes a range of women's images - including brides, mistresses, mothers, sisters, witches, wraiths, enchanted princesses, peasants, revolutionaries, cowgirls, scientists, and athletes - as well as the creation of various women's communities on the dance stage * suggests approaches to issues of gender in postmodern dance Using an interpretive strategy different from that of other feminist dance historians, who have stressed either victimization or celebration of women, Banes finds a much more complex range of cultural representations of gender identities.

The Ecstasy of Demons

The Ecstasy of Demons
Title The Ecstasy of Demons PDF eBook
Author Percy Lallemang
Publisher
Total Pages 222
Release 2019-11-19
Genre
ISBN 9781709637940

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While still recovering from the injuries he received at the outcome of The Agony of Angels, private Investigator Sam Miller must form alliances with former adversaries to find and rescue the only person he's ever truly cared about who's disappeared seemingly without a trace, abducted by a ruthless ancient secret society operating in Sam's native city's underground, with links to some local high-ranking figures. His investigations become a true descent into hell.

Ecstasy Unveiled

Ecstasy Unveiled
Title Ecstasy Unveiled PDF eBook
Author Larissa Ione
Publisher Hachette UK
Total Pages 272
Release 2011-12-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0748126155

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Lore is a Seminus half-breed demon who has been forced to act as his master's assassin. Now to earn his freedom and save his sister's life, he must complete one last kill. Powerful and ruthless, he'll stop at nothing to carry out this deadly mission. Idess is an earthbound angel with a wild side sworn to protect the human Lore is targeting. She's determined to thwart her wickedly handsome adversary by any means necessary - even if that means risking her vow of eternal chastity. But what begins as a simple seduction soon turns into a passion that leaves both angel and demon craving complete surrender. Torn between duty and desire, Lore and Idess must join forces as they battle their attraction for each other. Because an enemy from the past is rising again - one hell-bent on vengeance and unthinkable destruction.

Art of Suppression

Art of Suppression
Title Art of Suppression PDF eBook
Author Pamela M. Potter
Publisher Univ of California Press
Total Pages 409
Release 2016-06-28
Genre Architecture
ISBN 0520957962

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One thinks of the arts in Nazi Germany as struggling in an oppressive system, yet evidence has repeatedly shown that conditions were far more favourable than we assume. Potter conducts a historiography of Nazi arts, examining writings from the last seven decades to demonstrate how historical, moral, and intellectual conditions have sustained a distorted characterization of cultural life in the Third Reich. Showing how past research has revealed the decentralized nature of Nazi arts policies, Potter argues that the insulation of academic disciplines allowed outdated presumptions about Nazi micromanagement of the arts to persist.

Dance Theatre in Ireland

Dance Theatre in Ireland
Title Dance Theatre in Ireland PDF eBook
Author A. McGrath
Publisher Springer
Total Pages 227
Release 2012-12-03
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 113703548X

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Dance theatre has become a site of transformation in the Irish performance landscape. This book conducts a socio-political and cultural reading of dance theatre practice in Ireland from Yeats' dance plays at the start of the 20th century to Celtic-Tiger-era works of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and CoisCéim Dance Theatre at the start of the 21st.