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The chapter examines the influence of Greek dance, Ausdruckstanz (expressionism), as a major phenomenon of modern European dance and introduces a variety of practices and styles within this umbrella term, including Eurhythmics, Nacktkultur, and Tanztheater. The discussion examines how writers like D. H. Lawrence, Samuel Beckett, and Upton ...
While choral song-dance was a fundamentally communal practice, thoroughly embedded in social, civic, and ritual contexts, it came in a wide variety of forms and made space for individual and local
This chapter defines and examines seven primary functions of dance in musicals: as an exploration of character in psychological terms, as a narrative tool, as an unspoken aspect of libretto, as a transitional device, to develop character, as metaphor, and as danced abstraction within the narrative.
Dance has played a role in many works of literature and poetry (think of William Butler Yeats, Willa Cather, or Jane Austin, or Gustave Flaubert for example). What makes dance a pivotal element in literary unfolding?
implicitly exemplified by modern dancers, choreographers, and their works. Her critical methodology here is to propose a set of sugges-tive analogies between the imagery, structure, embodied movement, relation to narrative, and so on, in modern dance and the innovative stylistic and formal approaches of modernist writers. Though not fully ...
The reciprocal relationship between literature and dance represents one of the most striking but understudied features of modernism. The scale of interaction between the two art forms during this period was remarkable, the most famous instance illustrated by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, a company that attracted writers to dance ...
9 cze 2018 · intermingling roles that literature shares with six different dance forms from across the globe. By looking specifically at Native American dance, Bharatanatyam, West African dance, Ballet, Modern dance, and Post-Modern dance, I have been able to discover connections that are unique
