Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary Wigman by Susan Manning

Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary Wigman

Susan Manning

353 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

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Mary Wigman, Germany's premier modern dancer between the two world wars, envisioned the dancer in the thrall of ecstatic and demonic forces. Transforming the performer into an abstract configuration of energy in space, her works subverted the trad...

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