When Words are Inadequate is a transnational history of modern dance written from and beyond the perspective of China. Author Nan Ma surveys the careers and choreographies of key Chinese modern dance pioneers and their connections to iconic Western counterparts, reinserting China into the multi-centered, transnational network of artistic exchange that fostered the global rise of modern dance in the twentieth century.
When Words are Inadequate is a transnational history of modern dance written from and beyond the perspective of China. Author Nan Ma surveys the careers and choreographies of key Chinese modern dance pioneers and their connections to iconic Western counterparts, reinserting China into the multi-centered, transnational network of artistic exchange that fostered the global rise of modern dance in the twentieth century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Nan Ma is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Dickinson College. She conducts research on modern Chinese literature, film, visual culture, and dance and performance studies and has published articles on Chinese modern dance, ballet and film in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC), China Perspectives, and the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: The Chinese Case of Modern Dance * Chapter 1: Traveling Princess and Dancing Diplomat: Yu Rongling, Corporeal Modernity, and Isadora Duncan * Chapter 2: Transmediating Kinesthesia: Wu Xiaobang, Mary Wigman via Tokyo, and Modern Dance in Wartime China * Chapter 3: Dancing Reclusion in the Great Leap Forward: Conflicting Utopias and Wu Xiaobang's "Classical New Dance" * Chapter 4: Writing Dance: Dai Ailian, Labanotation, and the Multi-Diasporic "Root" of Modern Chinese Ethnic Dance * Epilogue: Guo Mingda, Alwin Nikolais, and the (Anti-)American Link * Index
* Introduction: The Chinese Case of Modern Dance * Chapter 1: Traveling Princess and Dancing Diplomat: Yu Rongling, Corporeal Modernity, and Isadora Duncan * Chapter 2: Transmediating Kinesthesia: Wu Xiaobang, Mary Wigman via Tokyo, and Modern Dance in Wartime China * Chapter 3: Dancing Reclusion in the Great Leap Forward: Conflicting Utopias and Wu Xiaobang's "Classical New Dance" * Chapter 4: Writing Dance: Dai Ailian, Labanotation, and the Multi-Diasporic "Root" of Modern Chinese Ethnic Dance * Epilogue: Guo Mingda, Alwin Nikolais, and the (Anti-)American Link * Index
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