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Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes

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by GabrieleBrandstetter. 2015. Translation from the German by ElenaPolzer with MarkFranko. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 432 pp., series editor preface, author preface, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 paper, $38.95 Kindle.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2016

Gay Morris
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When Gabriele Brandstetter published Tanz-Lektüren: Körperbilder und Raumfiguren der Avantgarde in 1995, German dance studies hardly existed. The book was a pioneering effort that exerted considerable influence on dance studies in Germany as it developed over the next decades. Now, twenty years later, Tanz-Lektüren has been translated into English, and its appearance is most welcome. The book's importance is not merely historical; on the contrary, it has much to offer today's anglophone reader, particularly in Brandstetter's use of Aby Warburg's theories to analyze dance imagery and movement patterns. Important, too, is her inclusion of numerous writers and artists whose views on dance are little known, or at least little analyzed, in English.

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 48 , Special Issue 3: Randy Martin and Dance Studies , December 2016 , pp. 100 - 104
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 2016 

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