Wesley Lim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wesley Lim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Lim |
| SIGNATURE | LIM W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6797-9397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hyperathletic Artistry
The Chinese American skater Nathan Chen and the Japanese skater Yuzuru Hanyu have demonstrated what we call a ‘hyperathletic-artistic turn’: recognizing an almost superhuman, quad-jumping ability along with an equally developed artistic side. This article closely analyses their 2018 Olympic season performances exploring costuming, music, dance choreography, and jumping ability. While Chen's balletic and dancerly choreography – a ‘return of the da…
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating
In sport and sport media, figure skating is often perceived as ‘feminine’ and male skaters frequently occupy an ambiguous position, especially for Asian (American) athletes in a historically White-dominated sport. Based on discourse analysis, this article compares how English- and Japanese-language news narratives represent elite male figure skaters Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu, who are close rivals and skate for the United States and Japan respe…
Breathing Back the History of German Modern Dance through the Horror Film Genre in Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria (2018)
Director Luca Guadagnino's film Suspiria (2018) depicts the dancer Susie Bannion joining a dance academy secretly run by a coven of witches in Berlin during the German Autumn of 1977. This article analyzes how Mary Wigman's Hexentanz II , contemporary dance, and horror film practices inform Susie's neo-expressionist movement form, which is also steeped in the discourse surrounding the RAF (Red Army Faction), the West German far-left militant orga…
Queer Orientalism and Modernism in Dance Photographs of Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi
This article analyzes the staging, costuming, make‐up, and gestural semiotics of Zeremonienmeister and Persisches Lied , two 1929 photographs of the German Expressionist dancers Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi, while reflecting upon the affordances of still photography as a medium for the representation of their movement‐based art form. In these staged photographs, Kreutzberg and Georgi present their distinctive brand of modernist movement ae…
A Mode of Agitation between Verfremdungseffekt and Empathy
Le présent article analyse le film Moi, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, 2018) en se penchant particulièrement sur la technique théâtrale d’adresse directe à la caméra. Cette méthode crée un mode d’agitation qui fluctue entre l’effet de distanciation de Brecht et l’empathie. L’utilisation de gros plans faciaux, de zooms et de travellings dans des espaces intimes suscite des émotions chez l’auditoire à travers un récit alternatif de Tonya Harding. Cependan…
Funkenstein, Susan. Marking Modern Movement
Reimagining the Brown Body
William Forsythe’s screendance Alignigung (2016) depicts two male dancers, one fair- and the other brown-skinned, in hyperflexible and intimate configurations that vacillate between object and human. Alignigung engages with an egalitarian ethos along the same lines as contact improvisation but further demonstrates an alternative masculinity through movement qualities by reimagining the stereotypical brown body
Skating toward Americanization
At the 1987 World Figure Skating Championship, Katarina Witt skated to instrumental music from West Side Story playing the role of Maria. But how could her performance to Broadway show tunes be in line with SED ideology? Through histoire croisée- establishing multiple intersections with different cultures and tracing their continuing effects-this article examines how Witt's, her coach Jutta Müller's and choreographer Rudy Suchy's privileged expos…
An Enhanced Otherworldliness
This article analyses Thierry De Mey's screendance One Flat Thing, reproduced based on William Forsythe's dance of the same name. The filmmaker creates a heightened atmosphere of otherworldliness by drawing on the choreographer's own conception of it: from romantic ballet and the technique of disfocus. In addition to filming Forsythe's main dance, the screendance includes five movement sequences that do not appear in the original choreography. Th…
Spiritual Selfishness
Klaus Mann’s knowledge of writing and staging plays led to interest in exploring dance. His novel Der fromme Tanz (1925) and the dance-pantomime libretto Die zerbrochenen Spiegel (1926) deal specifically with this movement medium. This article first addresses Mann’s experience of watching Weimar dance performances, which developed his idea of “erschütternde Anmut,” and explores its connection with his conceptualization of spirituality. The novel’…
Bridging Gesture, Gesticulation, and Early Modern Dance
Walking through the streets of Paris, the protagonist Malte notices a man making jerky and unpredictable movements, most likely resulting from the neurological disease Veitstanz. This scene from Rainer Maria Rilke's prose work The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge focuses on the man's range of bodily movements. I argue that this scene can be read as a literary dance highlighting a battle between gesture and gesticulation. The Veitstanz symbolizes…
From Ritual Dance to Flight
In this article, I examine how the Austrian writer Robert Müller—in his novel Tropen: Der Mythos der Reise from 1915—depicts the protagonist Brandlberger’s experience of watching ritual dances of the Dumara tribe in the Amazon. Brandlberger observes two series of dances: first, the tribesmen in a communal dance and second, the priestess Zana in a series of solos and duets. His dance depictions continually hint at developing fantastical and intens…
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating
In sport and sport media, figure skating is often perceived as ‘feminine’ and male skaters frequently occupy an ambiguous position, especially for Asian (American) athletes in a historically White-dominated sport. Based on discourse analysis, this article compares how English- and Japanese-language news narratives represent elite male figure skaters Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu, who are close rivals and skate for the United States and Japan respe…
Breathing Back the History of German Modern Dance through the Horror Film Genre in Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria (2018)
Director Luca Guadagnino's film Suspiria (2018) depicts the dancer Susie Bannion joining a dance academy secretly run by a coven of witches in Berlin during the German Autumn of 1977. This article analyzes how Mary Wigman's Hexentanz II , contemporary dance, and horror film practices inform Susie's neo-expressionist movement form, which is also steeped in the discourse surrounding the RAF (Red Army Faction), the West German far-left militant orga…
From Ritual Dance to Flight
In this article, I examine how the Austrian writer Robert Müller—in his novel Tropen: Der Mythos der Reise from 1915—depicts the protagonist Brandlberger’s experience of watching ritual dances of the Dumara tribe in the Amazon. Brandlberger observes two series of dances: first, the tribesmen in a communal dance and second, the priestess Zana in a series of solos and duets. His dance depictions continually hint at developing fantastical and intens…
Bridging Gesture, Gesticulation, and Early Modern Dance
Walking through the streets of Paris, the protagonist Malte notices a man making jerky and unpredictable movements, most likely resulting from the neurological disease Veitstanz. This scene from Rainer Maria Rilke's prose work The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge focuses on the man's range of bodily movements. I argue that this scene can be read as a literary dance highlighting a battle between gesture and gesticulation. The Veitstanz symbolizes…
Spiritual Selfishness
Klaus Mann’s knowledge of writing and staging plays led to interest in exploring dance. His novel Der fromme Tanz (1925) and the dance-pantomime libretto Die zerbrochenen Spiegel (1926) deal specifically with this movement medium. This article first addresses Mann’s experience of watching Weimar dance performances, which developed his idea of “erschütternde Anmut,” and explores its connection with his conceptualization of spirituality. The novel’…
An Enhanced Otherworldliness
This article analyses Thierry De Mey's screendance One Flat Thing, reproduced based on William Forsythe's dance of the same name. The filmmaker creates a heightened atmosphere of otherworldliness by drawing on the choreographer's own conception of it: from romantic ballet and the technique of disfocus. In addition to filming Forsythe's main dance, the screendance includes five movement sequences that do not appear in the original choreography. Th…
Skating toward Americanization
At the 1987 World Figure Skating Championship, Katarina Witt skated to instrumental music from West Side Story playing the role of Maria. But how could her performance to Broadway show tunes be in line with SED ideology? Through histoire croisée- establishing multiple intersections with different cultures and tracing their continuing effects-this article examines how Witt's, her coach Jutta Müller's and choreographer Rudy Suchy's privileged expos…
A Mode of Agitation between Verfremdungseffekt and Empathy
Le présent article analyse le film Moi, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, 2018) en se penchant particulièrement sur la technique théâtrale d’adresse directe à la caméra. Cette méthode crée un mode d’agitation qui fluctue entre l’effet de distanciation de Brecht et l’empathie. L’utilisation de gros plans faciaux, de zooms et de travellings dans des espaces intimes suscite des émotions chez l’auditoire à travers un récit alternatif de Tonya Harding. Cependan…
Funkenstein, Susan. Marking Modern Movement
Reimagining the Brown Body
William Forsythe’s screendance Alignigung (2016) depicts two male dancers, one fair- and the other brown-skinned, in hyperflexible and intimate configurations that vacillate between object and human. Alignigung engages with an egalitarian ethos along the same lines as contact improvisation but further demonstrates an alternative masculinity through movement qualities by reimagining the stereotypical brown body
Queer Orientalism and Modernism in Dance Photographs of Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi
This article analyzes the staging, costuming, make‐up, and gestural semiotics of Zeremonienmeister and Persisches Lied , two 1929 photographs of the German Expressionist dancers Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi, while reflecting upon the affordances of still photography as a medium for the representation of their movement‐based art form. In these staged photographs, Kreutzberg and Georgi present their distinctive brand of modernist movement ae…
Hyperathletic Artistry
The Chinese American skater Nathan Chen and the Japanese skater Yuzuru Hanyu have demonstrated what we call a ‘hyperathletic-artistic turn’: recognizing an almost superhuman, quad-jumping ability along with an equally developed artistic side. This article closely analyses their 2018 Olympic season performances exploring costuming, music, dance choreography, and jumping ability. While Chen's balletic and dancerly choreography – a ‘return of the da…
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating
In sport and sport media, figure skating is often perceived as ‘feminine’ and male skaters frequently occupy an ambiguous position, especially for Asian (American) athletes in a historically White-dominated sport. Based on discourse analysis, this article compares how English- and Japanese-language news narratives represent elite male figure skaters Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu, who are close rivals and skate for the United States and Japan respe…
Breathing Back the History of German Modern Dance through the Horror Film Genre in Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria (2018)
Director Luca Guadagnino's film Suspiria (2018) depicts the dancer Susie Bannion joining a dance academy secretly run by a coven of witches in Berlin during the German Autumn of 1977. This article analyzes how Mary Wigman's Hexentanz II , contemporary dance, and horror film practices inform Susie's neo-expressionist movement form, which is also steeped in the discourse surrounding the RAF (Red Army Faction), the West German far-left militant orga…
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