Interrupted continuities: Modern Dance in Germany by Susan Allene Manning & Melissa Benson

Interrupted continuities: Modern Dance in Germany

The United States took the lead in modern dance innovation during the 1960s when artists such as Martha Graham? Josea Limoan? Paul Taylor? Alvin Ailey and Alwin Nikolais overwhelmed European audiences. Subsequently? the New German Tanztheatre revitalized German theatre traditions with its new content and application of some of the United States modern dance techniques. This book discusses both parallels and distinctions between the history of modern dance in the United States and Germany. During the 1930s the Nazis demanded that choreographers dismiss ...