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From Cole's downfall and Phoebe's somewhat questionable fashion sense to the power of three in history and literature and a magical tourist's guide to the Halliwells's hometown of San Francisco, this clever, lighthearted essay collection offers a fun and funny look at the world of the WB hit series Charmed. Edited by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Crusie, these accessible and entertaining essays apply the wit and insight of one of today's leading romance authors to the stylish, occasionally campy fan favorite known for its scandalous outfits, revolving door of love interests, and the magical mayhem of three otherwise normal sisters who must fight against evil as they deal with the challenges of everyday life.
Customer Reviews:
I love the charmed ones.......2007-05-16
I really thought it was different than it was. I found it a bit on the boring side and a bit of a mistake. The only interesting thing was it was about the charmed ones.
Totally Charmed:Demons,Whitelighters adn the Power of 3.......2006-03-16
I thought this book was good but it needed more about the show and less opinions. I would recommend this book to people who have follow the show but not for people that have not.
so not charmed.......2006-03-01
I found this book wasn't worth the money I paid for it. All it did was go on about how sexy Cole Turner and the older version of Chris was, what the girls were wearing and the power the girls have. But worse of all they did nothing but rubbish Leo and rave about women's lib. For me in the series, Leo is my favourite character, to me he makes the show, he shows the love he has for Piper and his two boys as well as fighting evil. He might be a whitelighter but to me he holds the family together, he's down to earth and trust worthy. As far as Cole goes if people only watch the show to see how sexy the men or women are then they're missing the whole meaning of the show! I have never liked Julian Mc Mahon even when he was in Home and Away. I think he loves himself and thinks he's just it! And frankly, he's nothing! Look what he did to his wife in real life? Married a few months and having an affair. They also wanted to get rid of Grams and the girl's mother and how glad they were that Prue is dead, I think the people who wrote this book are only interested in what is and isn't sexy and the power the girls have. They appear to have boring lives themselves and have to have television to have fantasies about what they're lives might of been. I mean if your a true lover of the show who cares who is better in bed a demon (Cole) or a whitelighter (Leo), or if Cole has a hairier chest than Leo? These people want Charmed to be a boring everyone's in bed soap opera or something similar. They aren't interested in the real meaning of the show! I have been too many charmed sites and hundreds of people have e-mailed these sites saying how upset they were that Leo is getting the axe. If amazon had zero then this is what I would of given this book, I found it very disappointing. I know my opinion doesn't amount to much, but I would suggest to others don't worry about getting this book because it isn't worth it if you are a true Charmed fan! Which these people who wrote in this book can't be! They're too busy living in the land of fairies!
Charmed & Dangerous.......2006-01-01
This book compiles a gaggle of essays on the facts, fans, flaws and fallacies of "Charmed." The chapters are written by a variety of fantasy, science fiction and romance novelists, modern witches, essayists, columnists, film critics, scientists and more.
The funny thing is, being a non-member of the "Charmed" fanverse, I expected to get bored with the book and quickly hand it off to another reviewer. But no, instead I found myself enjoying these deep, analytical explorations of a show I rarely watched. The hypotheses made and the arguments supporting them are interesting, and often quite fun. ("Charmed" fans must, by the show's very nature, have a good sense of humor, and that comes through in many of these essays.)
I can't say whether or not I'll become a fan of the show. But "Totally Charmed" has me wanting to turn on the television and give it a chance, and that has to be a victory for the writers.
Intellectual Fun.......2005-11-12
"Charmed" has always been a show that more than what it seemed. It was never really about 3 sisters with magical powers, but 3 sisters and their dynamic. That's one of the things that I loved about this book - it takes the ideas presented in the series over the course of the past 7 years (not including the current 8th season) and examine them. My favorite is the article discussing Piper's powers that both freeze and speed up time. Personally, I've always believed in magic, but I'm also aware that most of magic is just science. To learn that there is actually a scientific theory behind her power was absolutely fascinating.
So if you're looking for something a little different to read, pick this one up. You won't regret it.
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Twenty-three years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a demonic supernatural force. Following the tragedy, their father, John, set out to teach his boys everything about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America . . . and how to kill it.
Fans of the blockbuster television phenomenon can rejoice! A one-of-a-kind compilation of all of Sam and Dean's demon-busting knowledge, The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls contains illustrations and detailed descriptions that catalogue the more than two dozen otherworldly enemies that most people believe exist only in folklore, superstition, and nightmares:vampires, ghosts, revenants, reapers, and even bloody clowns. You'll find within these pages Sam and Dean's notes, observations, and memories interwoven with sections of John Winchester's invaluable journal, making this book the perfect companion to every thrilling episode—and an essential weapon in the secret war against the hidden creatures of the darkness!
Customer Reviews:
Awesome.......2007-10-09
I love this book and it is really cool the way it is written. I have so enjoyed reading it.
Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls.......2007-10-06
I love the show "Supernatural" and anything to do with it. This book was semi-interesting, mainly because it was written from the point of view of Dean and Sam Winchester and because it touched on the entities the boys have faced on the show.
Great for fan.......2007-10-06
SOme of the stuff in there is real folklore, it is a bible for the supernatural fan... the show or the real thing!
Perfectly written.......2007-10-06
Definately a must have book for all Supernatural fans. It explains all the myths that were the bases of the episodes in season one. Also, it is written in the Brothers point of view making it interesting to read. Highly Recommended
Everything you wanted to know about things that go bump in the night.......2007-09-30
This book is not just for those who are fans of the CW show Supernatural. Eric Kripke, creator of the show, prides himself on the validity of the legends and myths he uses in his show. This book gives background information about things encounted by the Winchesters with a few new critters added in. The text uses Sam and Dean's voices for each section and fans of the show can easily pick out which Winchester is speaking each time. This book is a must for those who want to learn more about urban legends and things that roam the night.
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Book by Hugh Wheeler Introduction by Christopher Bond "Mr. Sondheim fearlessly explores psychic caverns where civilized people are not dying to go ... A naked Sweeney Todd stands revealed as a musical of naked rage, chewing up everyone in its path as it spits out blood and tears." - Frank Rich, The New York Times * "A work of such scope and such daring that it dwarfs every other Broadway musical that even attempts to invite comparison." - Rex Reed, New York Daily News
Customer Reviews:
Sick, sick, sick!!!!.......2007-01-04
I must say that this book lived up to everything I had ever heard about it. I don't think I have ever read a more disgusting account of madness in my life. It will be interesting to see how it comes out as a movie, as the story in print form drags on and on with huge gaps of dull nothingness between throat cuttings and meat grinding. Hopefully it will make a better movie than it does a book.
An Absolutely Thrilling Piece! .......2006-08-06
Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd makes sure that the man will rank with the best musical theater composers as well as the best classical composers. His eclectic, thrilling score for Sweeney Todd includes patter songs for the wonderful Mrs. Lovett, incredible arias for Sweeney Todd and romantic ballads for the young lovers. Although it is priced at $100.00, it is nearly 400 pages long and includes every note of music in the show as well as plently of dialouge that is incoroporated into musical scenes.
Sondheim's Best........2004-06-18
It was so wonderful to buy this book and to have the entirity of the musical right at my finger tips word for word. It's truly one of the best musicals ever concocted and Sondheim is a genius. I reccomend this to everyone whose a fan of the show.. if you're not familiar with the show, it might seem a little strange to you..
The pinnacle of Sondheim's Art.......2001-11-23
In 1979, Stephen Sondheim had a long and illustrious career on the Broadway stage, with "Company", "Follies", and "A Little Night Music" to his credit. "Sweeney Todd" capped that career with an extraordinarily inspired score, ably seconded by Hugh Wheeler's insightful and clever book. A triumph on all counts.
Sweeney Todd Music Book.......2000-04-27
Not only does the music book capture many of the aspects of the tale of Sweeney Todd, it captures Stephen Sondheim's brilliance in the world of music as a writer. This music book is well worth the price paid for it.
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Carnival, charivari, mumming plays, peasant festivals, and even early versions of the Santa Claus myth--all of these forms of entertainment influenced and shaped blackface minstrelsy in the first half of the nineteenth century. In his fascinating study Demons of Disorder, musicologist Dale Cockrell studies issues of race and class by analyzing their cultural expressions, and investigates the roots of still-remembered songs such as "Jim Crow," "Zip Coon," and "Dan Tucker." The first book on the blackface tradition written by a leading musicologist, Demons of Disorder is an important achievement in music history and culture.
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- Exhausting
- Interesting Oral History
- Tedious and vulgar
- Thorough, gossipy, undefinitive -- maybe unnecessary
- FASCINATING DEMONS
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Dance With Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins
Greg Lawrence
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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ASIN: 0756762022 |
Book Description
The first biography of the celebrated choreographer/director of Broadway, ballet, and Hollywood-a man of towering achievement and extraordinary personal demons.
For decades he was one of the most commanding creative forces in America. His work on such shows as On the Town, The King and I, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Gypsy, and Jerome Robbins's Broadway earned him five Tony Awards and two Academy Awards. His brilliance with American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet established him as one of America's great ballet masters.
But when Jerome Robbins, né Rabinowitz, died at the age of seventy-nine in 1998, he was a haunted man. All of his life, he had struggled with demons: his bisexuality, his Judaism, his often bitter relationship with his parents, his betrayals of others during the McCarthy hearings, and his perfectionism that bordered on the sadistic. He was loved and hated in equal parts; and only now, in this groundbreaking biography by insider Greg Lawrence, based upon two years of research and dozens of interviews with Robbins's family, friends, and colleagues, can the full measure of both the artist and the man be taken. It is a fascinating portrait of light and dark-like its subject, a work rich in complexity.
Customer Reviews:
Exhausting.......2003-04-14
I basically enjoyed the book, but I wish it had been about a hundred pages shorter. I would have preferred a book that really focused on the Broadway career. I have very little interest in ballet and a lot of the book was about ballet. It assumes the dancers mentioned are household words, but aside from Villella, Nureyev, Baryshnikov, Suzanne Farrell and a couple of others, I had no idea who these people were and what they said was not particularly interesting. This is an ambitious book and I admire its ambition, but Robbins was a part of many worlds and in order to do all these worlds justice the whole is diluted. It could have been several books - one dealing with his early life and Jewish heritage, another dealing with his sexual nature, another with his Broadway career, another with his career in dance, and yet another dealing with his early flirtation with and later repudiation of Communism. This book tries to cover all the bases and ends up being exhausting. As I said the ballet part didn't really interest me and it took up most of the last half of the book. As a result I found the last hundred pages really tough going. But I did learn a lot that interested me, like how Robbins wanted John Latouche and Arthur Laurents to write the lyrics and book for ON THE TOWN. Bernstein wanted Comden and Green. ...
Interesting Oral History.......2003-03-26
Greg Lawrence is less an author than a complier of an oral history of the life of Jerome Robbins in Dance With Demons. This is by no means a true biography but it does fill a certain need until that volume is written. It gives almost everybody Jerome Robbins met in his life a chance to speak, sometimes briefly and sometimes at length, about working with or knowing him. No aspect of his life is left untouched. This book is almost less about Jerome Robbins as a person than it is about the ways in which he touched people. All the nastiness is there but also all the good things people had to say about him. There is nothing defintive about this book but it makes for a fascinating read and is a testament to power of this difficult genius.
Tedious and vulgar.......2002-06-16
Very little to do with dance, this book is mostly personalities and scandal. The not-very-subtle subtext is Robbins' homosexuality, and its relation to the HUAC affair. Strictly for celebrity hounds.
Thorough, gossipy, undefinitive -- maybe unnecessary.......2001-09-28
Despite, or because of, its inclusion of hundreds of interviews, much of Greg Lawrence's biography amounts to uncorroborated hearsay. Given the backbiting and jealous atmosphere of the theatre world, a more rigorous biographer would have carefully weighed and vetted the reliability of the sources. Lawrence apparently was not given access to Robbins' own papers and therefore the man himself is decidedly absent from these pages, as has been pointed out by reviews in The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and elsewehere. It's gossipy and full of facts and opinions, but curiously empty.
Another customer reviewer here compares Lawrence's book with Christine Conrad's compendium of photographs and Robbins quotes (Jerome Robbins,That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man), to Lawrence's benefit. Seems to me you get a stronger sense of Robbins the man AND the artist from Conrad's book, even though it doesn't pretend to be a biography.
I've read that two other full-scale biographies are in the works whose authors have been allowed to see Robbins's archives; hopefully they will provide a deeper and more balanced view of the man. If anyone still cares.
FASCINATING DEMONS.......2001-09-09
When I reviewed Christine Conrad's book on Jerome Robbins ("Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man") I wrote that the book on Robbins had yet to appear. Well, that book is here.
Greg Lawrence's fascinating DANCE WITH DEMONS is so painstakingly researched and so fair-minded, so interestingly written that it speeds along as if it were a novel, that it will, I believe, in years to come, be regarded as a very important document of life in the Theatre and the Ballet from the 1930's to the 1990's.
None of Robbins' "psychological problems" are glossed over and none of his matchless successes as a classical choreographer and as a director and choreographer of Broadway mega-hits is given short shrift.
Any reader with an interest in life in the New York City Ballet, under George Balanchine and then under Peter Martins, or in the Golden Age of Broadway's Musical Comedies, can afford to miss this book. Years and years of research obviously went into its writing. Just a very few examples of people quoted at length about Robbins, the artist, are his collaborators on WEST SIDE STORY (Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince), his collaborator and boss on THE KING AND I (Oscar Hammerstein,2), his dancers on Broadway (Yuriko, Robert La Fosse, Charlotte D'Amboise, Grover Dale, et al) and his dancers in the ballet world (Peter Martins, Suzanne Farrell, Bart Cook, Violette Verdy, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev, et al). We also get to read what the critics said about the various works when they premiered.
What makes the book terrific reading is that time and time again, through the years, we read of no one who has anything negative to say about Robbins, the artist. And yet, over and over we read of peers being crushed, other artists being "named" in the HUAC hearings, friends and lovers being used and abused.
Demons, indeed.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Customer Reviews:
AARGGH........2007-06-28
I have long maintained that "Dance of Demons" was the worst fantasy novel I have ever read. Several years of reading have done nothing to dispel that notion. The overwhelming impression after reading the book is that of an overpowered uber-munchkin character running through a high-level D&D campaign... but then, no sane DM would let this happen. One of the other reviewers actually pasted some of the extracts of the novel to prove the point. Fortunately, I have managed to blank out the memory of the terrible, terrible, prose, the nonexistent plot, and the lack of character development (unless you count leveling up and gaining new abilities as levelling).
Stay away. FAR FAR away!
Words really can't describe this book...but I'll try anyway.......2004-02-09
And they say bad things about Ed Greenwood. Let me tell you - Gary Gygax definitely created the uber-munchkin concept with the culmination of his central character, Gord the Rogue, first introduced in Saga of Old City and Artifact of Ultimate Evil (I'll skip the descriptives for Gord and his cohorts as I'm assuming that if you've managed to get this far you know who they all are). Elminster seriously looks like a shrimp compared to this guy. At this stage of the saga (I think there are seven books ahead of it) Gord's still human (using that term very loosely), but he's got about a zillion innate powers and godlike abilities.
In one sequence he kills about two THOUSAND demons (I kid you NOT) by himself, while his partner (also human) kills another two thousand. All this happens in one encounter.
In another one he faces off with the Reaper, Nerull, Lord of Hades, also known as Infestix, also known as the supreme leader of the yugoloths (daemons) and kicks his ass.
Did I say that Gord, at this stage, is not even thirty years old?
Dance of Demons has to be the WORST book I've ever read - Gary, who is rightly regarded as the father of D&D, must've gone completely dry on ideas and penned this for the money. His former narrative brilliance, so much in evidence in Saga of Old City and Artifact of Ultimate Evil, raised hopes that he was one of the few D&D writers who could stand among the contemporary fantasy crowd. But this book is a shocker. No suspense, no twists, nothing but Super-Gord cutting a swathe through every single thing. It's AD&D munchkinism at its absolute worst.
Gord is now the Champion of Balance (Good and Evil are BOTH undesirable) and is IMPERVIOUS to defeat and demon lords like Graz'zt, Demogorgon, Mandrillagon and Orcus, as well as daemonkings like Anthraxus and Infestix, and the Dukes Infernal (Asmodeus and Co.) quail before his relentless onslaught. And YES, as I said before, he's still human.
And just what exactly can Super-Gord do? (Don't worry, these aren't spoilers as they are revealed in the first five pages of the book.) Well, he can communicate by telepathy. He can move to any place with a thought. He can drop off other wizards' radar and do the stealth bomber thing. His armor is lighter than air. He has a magic ring which when worn makes it impossible for anyone to hurt him either physically or magically. Since he supposed to be a thief, he has these special gloves which allow him to fall any distance and land like a cat (ie fly downwards). Oh, and he wields Courflamme, the Mighty Sword of Neutrality, which has the ability to kill thousands of demons with a thought.
Here are some excerpts of one of his battles in the Abyss that will have you rolling on the floor.
"Gord raised the diamond-bright part of Courflamme, aiming at the demon's outthrust head. The sword's tip suddenly spat forth a black bolt of force. The crackling ebon dart sheared off the top of the fiend's head, and the impact of it actually flipped the demon's massive body over in a somersault.
Without pausing to view his work, Gord turned and faced his next foe, now aiming the long blade as if it were a wand. Again the inky core of the weapon sent forth a blast of dark power, and another of the charging demons died. It became almost mechanical thereafter: Gord pointed the blade, willed destruction, and again another monstrous beast crashed down dead. Again, again, yet again. Soon a half-circle of twitching demon corpses formed a barrier in front of him, a wall so great that the young champion could see nothing but its stinking height."
And if that's not enough for you, Gellor, his sidekick, has certainly grown from being that raspcallion guardian of Gord's from the first couple of books. Here's an example of what he's like in combat with demons:
"Gellor brought forth his ivory kanteel, adjusted one of the golden pegs, and gently stroked the silver strings of the little harp. A ripple of beautiful notes washed outward, and the demon-beasts reacted as if they had been struck by a tidal wave.
When the sounds from the enchanted strings of the instrument struck, fully a dozen of the massive monsters were bowled over, while a half-hundred of the lesser scavengers were blown away, some actually torn to pieces in the process."
And here's a final excerpt to blow you away (literally):
"Side by side, the two heroes strode across the endless leagues of the foul layer that was the entry to the Abyss. In a short time, thanks to their innate force, they came to the towering bluffs that housed the gateways to the next twenty tiers of the agglomeration of planes that formed the depth of evil called demonrealm, the Abyss. A few hundred lesser demons were there to contest their entry, prevent them from going on, but those malign guards died in vain, swiftly and without great effort from the pair. A clear and bright melody from the kanteel, some dark and deadly lightnings from the rejoined sword, Courflamme, and none stood to oppose them."
If you still want to go ahead after all that, then you probably need a lobotomy. I would have given it zero stars, but unfortunately the lowest vote is one. So one it is. Oh, and a special note to Gary's lawyers should they decide to chase me - this is just an opinion!
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- You really CAN'T judge a book by it's cover... this is an excellent horror novel!
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Demon Dance
T. Chris Martindale
Manufacturer: Pocket
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Where the Chill Waits
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Customer Reviews:
You really CAN'T judge a book by it's cover... this is an excellent horror novel!.......2006-04-27
Demon Dance is the first T. Chris Martindale book I read. I found it at a church sale, the front cover torn off. But the back cover was still intact and the the blurb was interesting enough to make me shell out the 25 cents for the book. I loved it. Horror in an old west setting; believable complex characters; malevolent demons; Indians and gunslingers; zombies; carnivorous zombie buffalos...this book has something for everyone. And all of the elements are interwoven into a flawless plot, a satisfying denoument (none of that 'the face of evil is a giant spider' crap), and the kind of creepy, tension-building scenes that are a staple in all four of T. Chris Martindale's books.
My original copy was destroyed in a flood, so I found another one and bought it. I paid full price for it despite the cover art. Whoever thought that a female were-racoon would tempt people to buy a horror novel really should be slapped. I'd love to see a re-issue of Demon Dance with cover art that does it justice.
But I'm telling ya, if you loved Where the Chill Waits, Nightblood or Voice in the Basement, give Demon Dance a try. You won't regret it.
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Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play
Philli Zarrilli
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 041519282X |
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Kathakali, the distinctive and colorful dance-drama of Kerala in southwest India, is brought to life for the first time in book form. During these performances heroes, heroines, gods, and demons tell their stories. One of the few books ever published on this genre the book explores kathakali's reception as it reaches new audiences both in India and the west, includes two case studies of controversial kathakali experiments, and explores the implications for kathakali on Keralan politics. The four plays included in this anthology, translated from actual performances into English, are:
*The Flower of Good Fortune
*The Killing of Kirmmira
*The Progeny of Krishna
*King Rugmamgada's Law
Each play has an introduction and detailed commentary and is illustrated by stunning photographs taken during performances. A comprehensive introduction to kathakali stage conventions, make-up, music, acting, and training is also provided.
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Ecstasy and the Demon: The Dances of Mary Wigman
Susan Manning
Manufacturer: Univ Of Minnesota Press
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ASIN: 0816638020 |
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Mary Wigman, Germany’s premier dancer between the two world wars, envisioned the performer in the thrall of ecstatic and demonic forces. Widely hailed as an innovator of dance modernism, she never acknowledged her complex relationship with National Socialism. In Ecstasy and the Demon, Susan Manning advances a sociological explanation for the collaboration between German modern dancers and National Socialism. She models methods for dance studies that contextualize choreography in relation to changing sociopolitical conditions, bringing dance scholarship into conversation with intellectual trends across the humanities. The introduction to this second edition brings Manning’s groundbreaking work to bear on dance studies today and reconsiders Wigman’s career from the perspective of queer theory and globalization, further illuminating the interplay of dance and politics in the twentieth century. Susan Manning is professor of English, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University.
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Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary Wigman
Susan A. Manning
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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ASIN: 0520081935 |
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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 traditional eroticization of the female dancer. Critics in her own time and historians since have hailed her as a major innovator of dance modernism.
What commentators have not acknowledged until recently, however, is her collaboration with the Nazis. Under the Third Reich, Wigman subtly transformed the choreographic themes that had brought her fame during the Weimar Republic. Reverting to more traditional images of the female dancer, her works represented the division between male and female spheres so central to fascist ideology. Her choreographic career thus challenges the prevailing view of a sharp break between Weimar and Nazi culture.
Dance and cultural historian Susan Manning traces Wigman's career from Monte Verita, an artist's colony where she spent the First World War in voluntary exile, to West Berlin, where she premiered her final work just months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Manning argues that Wigman challenged the voyeurism of the male spectator while projecting an essentialized national identity, a mystical aura of Germanness.
Introducing methods not usually found in dance studies, Manning spins Wigman's story into an interdisciplinary space bounded by ongoing dialogues on the history of the body and the sexual and national politics of artistic modernism.
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