Nudes, Swords, and the Germanic Imagination: Renditions of Germanic Sword Dance Narratives in Early Twentieth-Century Dance

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作者
Walsdorf, Hanna [1 ,2 ]
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[1] Univ Leipzig, Emmy Noether Res Grp Ritual Design Ballet Stage C, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany
[2] Heidelberg Univ, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany
关键词
Body culture; Germany; Harald Kreutzberg; nudism; Olga Desmond; sword dance; Tacitus;
D O I
10.1017/S0149767715000340
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J7 [舞蹈];
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摘要
The written history of German sword dance has seen a number of quaint twists. With the rediscovery in 1455 of a short Tacitus quote (98 C.E.) presumably proving the existence of the sword dance in ancient Germanic times, claims were soon made that it had persisted for millennia. From the late nineteenth century onward, nationalists and body culture theorists, each in their way, favored the idea of revitalizing an ethnic German dance form. This article aims to delineate the respective discourses, and illustrates these by portraying the choreographic renditions of an imagined German sword dance tradition by Olga Desmond and Harald Kreutzberg. © 2015 Congress on Research in Dance.
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