TY - BOOK AU - Elswit, Kate. AU - Elswit, Kate. TI - Watching Weimar Dance T2 - Oxford studies in dance theory SN - 9780199844838 U1 - 792.80943 ELS PY - 2014/// CY - Oxford ; New York PB - : Oxford University Press KW - Arts KW - Oxford studies in dance theory KW - Stage presentations KW - Politics and government KW - Arts and society -- Germany -- History -- 20th century KW - Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century KW - Dance -- Germany -- History -- 20th century N1 - Impossible spectacles: death, dance, and direct expression -- Imagining the dancing machine -- Three stories about private parts -- The politics of watching: staging sacrifice across the Atlantic -- Watching after Weimar: dance's intellectual property and the protection of memory N2 - "Watching Weimar Dance asks what audiences saw on stages from cabaret and revue to concert dance and experimental theatre in the turbulent moment of the Weimar Republic. Spectator reports that performers died or became half-machine archive not only the physicality of past performance, but also the ways audiences used the temporary world of the theatre to negotiate pressing social issues, from female visibility within commodity culture to human functioning in an era of increasing technologization. Archives of watching a range of performance artists, including Oskar Schlemmer, Valeska Gert, Kurt Jooss, Mary Wigman, Bertolt Brecht, Anita Berber, and the Tiller Girl troupes also revise and complicate our understanding of Ausdruckstanz as the representative dance of this moment in Germany. They further reveal how such practices came to be imbued with different significance in the postwar era as well as in transnational context. By bringing insights from theatre, dance, and performance studies to German cultural studies, and vice versa, Watching Weimar Dance develops a culturally-situated model of spectatorship that not only offers a new narrative but also demonstrates new methods for dance scholarship to shape cultural history"--The publisher ER -