Jens Richard Giersdorf
Biographic Data
| ID | 1264788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jens Richard Giersdorf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jens Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Giersdorf |
| SIGNATURE | GIERSDORF J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Modern University for Information and Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Routledge Dance Studies Reader
"The Routledge Dance Studies Reader has been expanded and updated, giving readers access to thirty-seven essential texts that address the social, political, cultural, and economic impact of globalization on embodiment and choreography. These interdisciplinary essays in dance scholarship consider a broad range of dance forms in relation to historical, ethnographic, and interdisciplinary research methods including cultural studies, reconstruction, …
Routledge Dance Studies Reader
Choreographies of 21st Century Wars
'Choreographies of 21st Century Wars' addresses the interface between choreography and war in this century. The book challenges concepts of choreography as solely a structuring mechanism and an aesthetics of politics that is exclusively resistant. Instead, in the context of 21st-century war, it calls for a rethinking of choreography that incorporates the disorder and dispersion of power away from nation-states, which is central to this century. T…
Remobilizing Dance Studies
This essay uses as its case study the reconstruction of an East German Vietnamese socialist folk dance Spring in Vietnam (1969) to reflect on Randy Martin's 1998 conviction that Dance Studies has the potential to embody and materialize solutions to intellectual and political issues that have been left out of other academic disciplines. Written as a play script, the essays performs a remobilization of Dance Studies and its potential to reflect on …
Dance, Politics & Co-Immunity
Dance, Politics & Co-Immunity developed out of a symposium organized by the Master in Choreography and Performance at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany, which was held with a joint symposium Thinking—Resisting—Reading the Political organized by the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture at the same university in 2010. Whereas the cultural studies symposium asked, “What specific perspectives and methodological consequences arise for …
Volkseigene Körper
»Volkseigene Körper« ist die erste deutschsprachige Monografie zur Untersuchung der doktrinären und oppositionellen Choreographien in Ostdeutschland. Der frühere Tänzer und Dramaturg (Tanzbühne Leipzig) Jens Richard Giersdorf verbindet Archivrecherchen, critical theory, Interviews und persönliche Berichte mit tanzwissenschaftlichen Analysen unterschiedlicher Performances (individuelle Improvisationen, Massenbewegungen, Volks- und Gesellschaftstän…
The Body of the People
The Body of the People is the first comprehensive study of dance and choreography in East Germany. More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jens Richard Giersdorf investigates a national dance history in the German Democratic Republic, from its founding as a Communist state that supplanted the Soviet zone of occupation in 1949 through the aftermath of its collapse forty years later, examining complex themes of nationhood, ideolog…
The Routledge dance studies reader
Dance Studies in the International Academy
For the past thirteen years, I have been traveling to the United States from my home country of Germany, first as a graduate student in California and later as a professor living in New York. Every time I pass through immigration, I am asked a series of questions regarding my final destination and my occupation. The latter always leads to some confusion, because when I am asked what I do, my accent seems to turn “dance history” into “dentistry.” …
Trio A Canonical
Despite Yvonne Rainer's subversive refusal to stage Trio A as a spectacle, to have it represent or narrate social structures, or to engage with the audience in a traditional manner, the landmarks of canonization have all been put upon it. The Banes-produced 1978 film of Rainer dancing Trio A was recently exhibited while the dance was performed live simultaneously by Pat Catterson, Jimmy Robert, and Ian White at the Museum of Modern Art, the insti…
Why Does Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf Curtsy
Research Article| April 01 2006 WHY DOES CHARLOTTE VON MAHLSDORF CURTSY?: Representations of National Queerness in a Transvestite Hero Jens Richard Giersdorf Jens Richard Giersdorf Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (2): 171–196. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-171 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ema…
Border Crossings and Intra-National Trespasses
Even though Jo Fabian and Sasha Waltz each base one of their dance theatre pieces on East German identity during and after the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989, their distinct approaches and trainings produce dramatically different choreographies. By examining the dialectical relationships of their productions with East German citizens' conscious pedestrian movements at that time, I illuminate the role of choreography in the creation of societa…
Border Crossings and Intra-National Trespasses
Even though Jo Fabian and Sasha Waltz each base one of their dance theatre pieces on East German identity during and after the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989, their distinct approaches and trainings produce dramatically different choreographies. By examining the dialectical relationships of their productions with East German citizens' conscious pedestrian movements at that time, I illuminate the role of choreography in the creation of societa…
Dance Studies in the International Academy
For the past thirteen years, I have been traveling to the United States from my home country of Germany, first as a graduate student in California and later as a professor living in New York. Every time I pass through immigration, I am asked a series of questions regarding my final destination and my occupation. The latter always leads to some confusion, because when I am asked what I do, my accent seems to turn “dance history” into “dentistry.” …
Why Does Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf Curtsy
Research Article| April 01 2006 WHY DOES CHARLOTTE VON MAHLSDORF CURTSY?: Representations of National Queerness in a Transvestite Hero Jens Richard Giersdorf Jens Richard Giersdorf Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (2): 171–196. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-171 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ema…
Trio A Canonical
Despite Yvonne Rainer's subversive refusal to stage Trio A as a spectacle, to have it represent or narrate social structures, or to engage with the audience in a traditional manner, the landmarks of canonization have all been put upon it. The Banes-produced 1978 film of Rainer dancing Trio A was recently exhibited while the dance was performed live simultaneously by Pat Catterson, Jimmy Robert, and Ian White at the Museum of Modern Art, the insti…
Border Crossings and Intra-National Trespasses
Even though Jo Fabian and Sasha Waltz each base one of their dance theatre pieces on East German identity during and after the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989, their distinct approaches and trainings produce dramatically different choreographies. By examining the dialectical relationships of their productions with East German citizens' conscious pedestrian movements at that time, I illuminate the role of choreography in the creation of societa…
Why Does Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf Curtsy
Research Article| April 01 2006 WHY DOES CHARLOTTE VON MAHLSDORF CURTSY?: Representations of National Queerness in a Transvestite Hero Jens Richard Giersdorf Jens Richard Giersdorf Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (2): 171–196. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-171 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ema…
Dance Studies in the International Academy
For the past thirteen years, I have been traveling to the United States from my home country of Germany, first as a graduate student in California and later as a professor living in New York. Every time I pass through immigration, I am asked a series of questions regarding my final destination and my occupation. The latter always leads to some confusion, because when I am asked what I do, my accent seems to turn “dance history” into “dentistry.” …
Trio A Canonical
Despite Yvonne Rainer's subversive refusal to stage Trio A as a spectacle, to have it represent or narrate social structures, or to engage with the audience in a traditional manner, the landmarks of canonization have all been put upon it. The Banes-produced 1978 film of Rainer dancing Trio A was recently exhibited while the dance was performed live simultaneously by Pat Catterson, Jimmy Robert, and Ian White at the Museum of Modern Art, the insti…
The Routledge dance studies reader
The Body of the People
The Body of the People is the first comprehensive study of dance and choreography in East Germany. More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jens Richard Giersdorf investigates a national dance history in the German Democratic Republic, from its founding as a Communist state that supplanted the Soviet zone of occupation in 1949 through the aftermath of its collapse forty years later, examining complex themes of nationhood, ideolog…
Volkseigene Körper
»Volkseigene Körper« ist die erste deutschsprachige Monografie zur Untersuchung der doktrinären und oppositionellen Choreographien in Ostdeutschland. Der frühere Tänzer und Dramaturg (Tanzbühne Leipzig) Jens Richard Giersdorf verbindet Archivrecherchen, critical theory, Interviews und persönliche Berichte mit tanzwissenschaftlichen Analysen unterschiedlicher Performances (individuelle Improvisationen, Massenbewegungen, Volks- und Gesellschaftstän…
Dance, Politics & Co-Immunity
Dance, Politics & Co-Immunity developed out of a symposium organized by the Master in Choreography and Performance at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany, which was held with a joint symposium Thinking—Resisting—Reading the Political organized by the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture at the same university in 2010. Whereas the cultural studies symposium asked, “What specific perspectives and methodological consequences arise for …
Choreographies of 21st Century Wars
'Choreographies of 21st Century Wars' addresses the interface between choreography and war in this century. The book challenges concepts of choreography as solely a structuring mechanism and an aesthetics of politics that is exclusively resistant. Instead, in the context of 21st-century war, it calls for a rethinking of choreography that incorporates the disorder and dispersion of power away from nation-states, which is central to this century. T…
Remobilizing Dance Studies
This essay uses as its case study the reconstruction of an East German Vietnamese socialist folk dance Spring in Vietnam (1969) to reflect on Randy Martin's 1998 conviction that Dance Studies has the potential to embody and materialize solutions to intellectual and political issues that have been left out of other academic disciplines. Written as a play script, the essays performs a remobilization of Dance Studies and its potential to reflect on …
The Routledge Dance Studies Reader
"The Routledge Dance Studies Reader has been expanded and updated, giving readers access to thirty-seven essential texts that address the social, political, cultural, and economic impact of globalization on embodiment and choreography. These interdisciplinary essays in dance scholarship consider a broad range of dance forms in relation to historical, ethnographic, and interdisciplinary research methods including cultural studies, reconstruction, …
Routledge Dance Studies Reader
Art (10 works) · Dance (8 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (8 works) · Visual arts (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Choreography (4 works) · Dance (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)