Skip Navigation

Forum for Modern Language Studies 2007 43(4):427-437; doi:10.1093/fmls/cqm062
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Song, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author (2007). Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved

Mary Wigman and German Modern Dance: A Modernist Witch?

Jiyun Song

Department of German
University of Miami
5202 University Drive
Coral Gables FL 33146
USA

jsong{at}miami.edu

  Abstract

This study engages with the two Witch Dances by Mary Wigman, a pioneering artist of German modern dance called Ausdruckstanz that developed during the first two decades of the twentieth century. By situating the dances within the cultural context of the time, the paper shows how Wigman's choice of a witch figure represents her effort to solve the dilemma of becoming both popular and innovative at the same time.

Key Words: dance • modernism • Wigman, Mary • Weimar Republic • avant-garde • body culture


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.