New German Dance Studies

"How exciting it is to have this elegantly organized collection of new theories of dance, performance, and culture as they are being developed in Germany. The field urgently needs this anthology, which gives readers a marvellous grasp of the complex history of German dance and the new methodologies that are being developed there."- Susan Leigh Foster, author of Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance "New German Dance Studies fills a research gap in English-speaking countries regarding the direction dance studies have taken in a German context. A useful compendium of the various personalities and new theories about how to approach modern research in the field." Helga Kraft, co-editor of Writing against the Boundaries: Nationality, Ethnicity, and Gender in German-speaking Context "[T]he essays are uniformly good and rich in illuminating historical detail... Manning and Ruprecht have done an excellent job of editing the volume. The writing in all the essays is consistently engaging, pulsating with freshness of perception, and very well documented with abundant and quite valuable endnotes. The book will easily find an appreciative audience with both undergraduate and graduate students in the performing arts as well as with scholars of dance history and of European modernism." - Karl Toepfer (San Jose State University), H-German