Elswit, Kate (2009) “Berlin … Your Dance Partner Is Death”. TDR/The Drama Review, 53 (1). pp. 73-92. ISSN 1054-2043

Abstract

Dance and death combined in post-WWI Germany to complicate the material authority they were seen to share. Using nascent modern dance techniques to exploit the expressive capacities of the dancing body, choreographers turned to dances of death to portray the increasingly difficult conditions of humanity. The logistics of performing these spectacles of the real are investigated through three choreographer/performers of the Weimar Republic: Kurt Jooss, Valeska Gert, and Anita Berber.

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Official URL:	https://direct.mit.edu/dram/article/53/1%20(201)/7...
Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Death, Representation, Aesthetics, Kurt Jooss, Anita Berber, Valeska Gert, Cabaret
Subjects:	European Theatre, Dance and Performance Health and Wellbeing Movement Dance History of Theatre, Dance and Performance Political Theatre Audiences Choreography
Depositing User:	Kate Elswit
Date Deposited:	19 Mar 2019 08:41
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2021 07:59
URI:	https://crco.cssd.ac.uk/id/eprint/827