{"product_id":"gestural-imaginaries-dance-and-cultural-theory-in-the-early-twentieth-century-9780190659370","title":"Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lucia Ruprecht\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - Dance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Taking further Cornelius Castoriadis's concept of the social imaginary, it explores this imaginary's embodied forms. Close readings of dances, photographs, and literary texts are juxtaposed with discussions of gestural theory by thinkers including Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, and Aby Warburg. Choreographic gesture is defined as a force of intermittency that creates a new theoretical status of dance. Author Lucia Ruprecht shows how this also bears on contemporary theory. She shifts emphasis from Giorgio Agamben's preoccupation with gestural mediality to Jacques Ranci�re's multiplicity of proliferating, singular gestures, arguing for their ethical and political relevance. Mobilizing dance history and movement analysis, Ruprecht\u003cbr\u003ehighlights the critical impact of works by choreographers such as Vaslav Nijinsky, Jo Mihaly, and Alexander and Clotilde Sakharoff. She also offers choreographic readings of Franz Kafka and Alfred D�blin. \u003cem\u003eGestural Imaginaries\u003c\/em\u003e proposes that modernist dance conducts a gestural revolution which enacts but also exceeds the insights of past and present cultural theory. It makes a case for archive-based, cross-medial, and critically informed dance studies, transnational German studies, and the theoretical potential of performance itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47969041481879,"sku":"9780190659370","price":11746.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780190659370.webp?v=1782920255","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gestural-imaginaries-dance-and-cultural-theory-in-the-early-twentieth-century-9780190659370","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}