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Breathing Back the History of German Modern Dance through the Horror Film Genre in Luca Guadagnino's <i>Suspiria</i> (2018) Open
Director Luca Guadagnino's film Suspiria (2018) depicts the dancer Susie Bannion joining a dance academy secretly run by a coven of witches in Berlin during the German Autumn of 1977. This article analyzes how Mary Wigman's Hexentanz II , …
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating: media representations of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu as rivals Open
In sport and sport media, figure skating is often perceived as ‘feminine’ and male skaters frequently occupy an ambiguous position, especially for Asian (American) athletes in a historically White-dominated sport. Based on discourse analys…
Queer Orientalism and Modernism in Dance Photographs of Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi Open
This article analyzes the staging, costuming, make‐up, and gestural semiotics of Zeremonienmeister and Persisches Lied , two 1929 photographs of the German Expressionist dancers Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi, while reflecting upon th…
Reimagining the Brown Body Open
William Forsythe’s screendance Alignigung (2016) depicts two male dancers, one fair- and the other brown-skinned, in hyperflexible and intimate configurations that vacillate between object and human. Alignigung engages with an egalitarian …
Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century by Lucia Ruprecht Open
Reviewed by: Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century by Lucia Ruprecht Wesley Lim Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century. By Lucia Ruprecht. Oxford: Oxford Univ…