Shamanism in Weimar Dance: The Pathway to Mary Wigman and the Beginning of Dance as Therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-180
Author(s):  
Carole Kew
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Movement Therapy ◽  
Mary Wigman

Mary Wigman's expressive dance (Ausdruckstanz) was a significant strand within Weimar dance that, although new in its inception, featured elements that recalled the ancient tradition of shamanic dance. Drawing on articles from the Weimar period and recent accounts of shamanism, as well as Wigman's own writing, this essay explores how this new but ancient practice acted as the foundational impetus for twentieth century dance and movement therapy.

Gesture, Interruption, Vibration: Rethinking Early Twentieth-Century Gestural Theory and Practice in Walter Benjamin, Rudolf von Laban, and Mary Wigman

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Ruprecht
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Actual Mode ◽  
Rudolf Von Laban ◽  
Mary Wigman

This article compares Rudolf von Laban's and Mary Wigman's practices and theories of gestural flow with Walter Benjamin's theory of gesture as interruption. For Laban and Wigman, gesture mirrors a vitalist understanding of life that is based on the rediscovery of transhistorical continuities between human and cosmic energy. Benjamin's Brechtian gestures address inscriptions and manipulations of bodies, which provide comment on the conditions of society by subjecting to critique the essentializing aspects of historical and vitalist flow. Addressing in particular forms of vibration as both enriching and destabilizing the gestural from its margins, my article explores how vibratory energy indicates a self-reflexive theory of media, but also a revolutionary charge, in Benjamin; how it engenders a politically ambivalent process of transmission between dancers and audience in Laban; and how it becomes an actual mode of movement in Wigman. The historical inquiry contributes to a genealogy of vibration in contemporary dance.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century Classics

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiva Wijesinha
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century
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