What is it about?
Gymnastics, Dance, Nazi Aesthetics, the connections between the 19th century and 20th century practices. Can a continuity between movement practices be established, were they similar or did they remain disparate? Did they emerge from shared ideological roots?
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Why is it important?
Discusses the history of German Dance, its concept of modernism and explains its dark legacy
Perspectives
This is part of an ongoing project that reveals the problematic and often suppressed and silenced aspects of the evolution of dance in Germany
Dr Marion Kant
University of Cambridge
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This page is a summary of: German Gymnastics, Modern German Dance, and Nazi Aesthetics, Dance Research Journal, August 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0149767716000164.
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