Author : Susan Manning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Choreographers
ISBN : 0816692815
Ecstasy and the Demon
Susan Manning
Ecstasy And The Demon
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Ecstasy and the Demon
Susan Manning
Author : Susan Manning
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816638020
Ecstasy and the Demon by Susan Manning Pdf
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.
Ecstasy Unveiled
Larissa Ione
Author : Larissa Ione
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748126156
Ecstasy Unveiled by Larissa Ione Pdf
Lore is a Seminus half-breed demon who has been forced to act as his master's assassin. Now to earn his freedom and save his sister's life, he must complete one last kill. Powerful and ruthless, he'll stop at nothing to carry out this deadly mission. Idess is an earthbound angel with a wild side sworn to protect the human Lore is targeting. She's determined to thwart her wickedly handsome adversary by any means necessary - even if that means risking her vow of eternal chastity. But what begins as a simple seduction soon turns into a passion that leaves both angel and demon craving complete surrender. Torn between duty and desire, Lore and Idess must join forces as they battle their attraction for each other. Because an enemy from the past is rising again - one hell-bent on vengeance and unthinkable destruction.
Dancing Women
Sally Banes
Author : Sally Banes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134833184
Dancing Women by Sally Banes Pdf
Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by - and that in part shape - society's continuing debates about sexuality and female identity. Broad in its scope and compelling in its argument Dancing Women: * provides a series of re-readings of the canon, from Romantic and Russian Imperial ballet to contemporary ballet and modern dance * investigates the gaps between plot and performance that create sexual and gendered meanings * examines how women's agency is created in dance through aspects of choreographic structure and style * analyzes a range of women's images - including brides, mistresses, mothers, sisters, witches, wraiths, enchanted princesses, peasants, revolutionaries, cowgirls, scientists, and athletes - as well as the creation of various women's communities on the dance stage * suggests approaches to issues of gender in postmodern dance Using an interpretive strategy different from that of other feminist dance historians, who have stressed either victimization or celebration of women, Banes finds a much more complex range of cultural representations of gender identities.
How About Demons?
Felicitas D. Goodman
Author : Felicitas D. Goodman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253014627
How About Demons? by Felicitas D. Goodman Pdf
The author of the Exorcism of Anneliese Michel “is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatment of a compelling and much-debated subject” (Journal of Folklore Research). As part of a series that strives to introduce new or previously unrecognized folkloric phenomena—as well as new approaches and theories that result from discovery and investigation—How About Demons? provides an overview of a topic that has for many years captured the imagination of people from all walks of life. Rich in detail derived from the author’s fieldwork and anthropological literature, this work contemplates possession and exorcism in a holistic manner—discussing their effects on both the body and soul. How About Demons? paints a picture of possession as a usually positive experience occurring in a wide variety of cultures and religions around the globe. It also details the ritual of exorcism which is applied when things go wrong. “Quite an interesting book.”—Religious Studies Review “It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years.”—The American Rationalist
Dance Theatre in Ireland
A. McGrath
Author : A. McGrath
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137035486
Dance Theatre in Ireland by A. McGrath Pdf
Dance theatre has become a site of transformation in the Irish performance landscape. This book conducts a socio-political and cultural reading of dance theatre practice in Ireland from Yeats' dance plays at the start of the 20th century to Celtic-Tiger-era works of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and CoisCéim Dance Theatre at the start of the 21st.
Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35
Sara Freeman
Author : Sara Freeman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780817371104
Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35 by Sara Freeman Pdf
Rosemarie K. Bank and Michal Kobialka, eds., Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter / Reviewed by Danny Devlin
The Ecstacy of Loving God
John Crowder
Author : John Crowder
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780768496994
The Ecstacy of Loving God by John Crowder Pdf
Ecstasy, or extasis, is the Greek term for trance, and is linked with a pleasurable, God-given state of out-of-body experience recorded throughout the New Testament and the church age. Starting with the apostles ecstatic experiences on Pentecost, the Book of Acts further records trances in the lives of Peter and Paul. From the early church to the Christian mystics of the Middle Ages and the famous revivalists of centuries present, God s movements on the earth have always been marked by these supernatural experiences. In this book, John Crowder takes us on a journey from Old Testament ecstatic prophets such as Samuel and Elijah, to the future ecstatics who will usher in a massive wave of harvest Glory to the streets in these last days. God has always wanted a people who live in the Heavens, even as they walk on the Earth. And the world is hungry for the demonstration of a gospel of supernatural power that flows from a life of divine pleasure. More than a state of mind, you will see how the nature of God s ecstasy is found in the joy, bliss and inner raptures of His presence. In this book, you will be encouraged to drink from the river of His pleasure! (Ps. 36:8)
Pleasure Unbound
Larissa Ione
Author : Larissa Ione
Publisher : Forever
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780446537711
Pleasure Unbound by Larissa Ione Pdf
In this dark and intriguing paranormal romance from New York Times bestselling author Larissa Ione, a forbidden romance turns deadly when a slayer is tasked with killing the demon who saved her life. In a place where ecstasy can cost you your life . . . She's a demon-slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure-but fears it will always be denied her. Until Tayla Mancuso lands in a hospital run by demons in disguise, and the head doctor, Eidolon, makes her body burn with unslakable desire. But to prove her ultimate loyalty to her peers, she must betray the surgeon who saved her life. Two lovers will dare to risk all. Eidolon cannot resist this fiery, dangerous woman who fills him with both rage and passion. Not only is she his avowed enemy, but she could very well be the hunter who has been preying upon his people. Torn between his need for the truth and his quest to find his perfect mate before a horrific transformation claims him forever, Eidolon will dare the unthinkable-and let Tayla possess him, body and soul...
Toy Medium
Daniel Tiffany
Author : Daniel Tiffany
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520219229
Toy Medium by Daniel Tiffany Pdf
"In this bold, speculative, and immensely learned study . . . Tiffany[‘s concept of] lyric substance--the ‘sense’ of materiality supplied to us by poets like Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore--constitutes a world whose inaccessibility is legitimized by the principles of scientific materialism. Thus lyric, too long on the periphery of materialist discourse, emerges as being squarely in its center."—Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University, author of The Futurist Moment and Wittgenstein’s Ladder "A lyrical inquiry into the circle of ideas: materialism, science, poetics. Winding through the whole is a fascinating exploration of toys--children’s toys, physicists’ toy models, philosophers’ robots, nuclear weaponeers’ toy towns. . . . My hope is that this book will contribute to a growing interest not in cleaving science from the arts but rather in exploring, poetically, the language, images and things that illuminate both." —Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and Physics, Harvard University "A brilliant achievement, synthesizing the history of science and poetics, technology and the arts, in an iconology of materialism. . . All that is solid melts into air in this book, but just as quickly the airy poems of our climate condense into material, objective forms, weird gadgets, and objects of scientific research. . . A wonderful feast of learning and wit." —W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, author of Picture Theory and Iconology "In clear-eyed and gorgeous prose, Toy Medium moves the question of Art's encounter with Science to an utterly original point of conflagration: where matter is mostly not matter. . . . Going to the bottom of the Imagination, where it still truly involves images, Tiffany explores how we have learned to see the inscrutable via our imagistic grasp of materiality. . . . This book is daring, brilliant, and deeply clever."—Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor of English, Harvard University, author of Materialism and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Dance Discourses
Susanne Franco,Marina Nordera
Author : Susanne Franco,Marina Nordera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134947195
Dance Discourses by Susanne Franco,Marina Nordera Pdf
Focusing on politics, gender, and identities, a group of international dance scholars provide a broad overview of new methodological approaches – with specific case studies – and how they can be applied to the study of ballet and modern dance. With an introduction exploring the history of dance studies and the development of central themes and areas of concerns in the field, the book is then divided into three parts: politics explores 'Ausdruckstanz' – an expressive dance tradition first formulated in the 1920s by dancer Mary Wigman and carried forward in the work of Pina Bausch and others gender examines eighteenth century theatrical dance – a time when elaborate sets, costumes, and plots examined racial and sexual stereotypes identity is concerned with modern dance. Exploring contemporary analytical approaches to understanding performance traditions, Dance Discourses' pedagogical structure makes it ideal for courses in performing arts and humanities.
The Demon in Democracy
Ryszard Legutko
Author : Ryszard Legutko
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781594039928
The Demon in Democracy by Ryszard Legutko Pdf
Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature. In The Demon in Democracy, Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two political systems, and explains how liberal democracy has over time lurched towards the same goals as communism, albeit without Soviet style brutality. Both systems, says Legutko, reduce human nature to that of the common man, who is led to believe himself liberated from the obligations of the past. Both the communist man and the liberal democratic man refuse to admit that there exists anything of value outside the political systems to which they pledged their loyalty. And both systems refuse to undertake any critical examination of their ideological prejudices.
The Ecstasy of Demons
Percy Lallemang
Author : Percy Lallemang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1709637943
The Ecstasy of Demons by Percy Lallemang Pdf
While still recovering from the injuries he received at the outcome of The Agony of Angels, private Investigator Sam Miller must form alliances with former adversaries to find and rescue the only person he's ever truly cared about who's disappeared seemingly without a trace, abducted by a ruthless ancient secret society operating in Sam's native city's underground, with links to some local high-ranking figures. His investigations become a true descent into hell.
Modern Dance, Negro Dance
Susan Manning
Author : Susan Manning
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816637369
Modern Dance, Negro Dance by Susan Manning Pdf
Two traditionally divided strains of American dance, Modern Dance and Negro Dance, are linked through photographs, reviews, film, and oral history, resulting in a unique view of the history of American dance.
New German Dance Studies
Susan Manning,Lucia Ruprecht
Author : Susan Manning,Lucia Ruprecht
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252036767
New German Dance Studies by Susan Manning,Lucia Ruprecht Pdf
Susan Manning is a professor of English, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University and the author of Ecstasy and the Demon: The Dances of Mary Wigman. Book jacket.