Nudes, Swords, and the Germanic Imagination
Renditions of Germanic Sword Dance Narratives in Early Twentieth-Century Dance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11224068 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanna Walsdorf (0000-0002-5152-8708, Leipzig University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 27-50 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dance Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-7677 • E-ISSN: 1940-509X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0149767715000340 |
| OpenAlex | W2199773566 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
The written history of German sword dance has seen a number of quaint twists. With the rediscovery in 1455 of a short Tacitus quote (98 C.E.) presumably proving the existence of the sword dance in ancient Germanic times, claims were soon made that it had persisted for millennia. From the late nineteenth century onward, nationalists and body culture theorists, each in their way, favored the idea of revitalizing an ethnic German dance form. This article aims to delineate the respective discourses, and illustrates these by portraying the choreographic renditions of an imagined German sword dance tradition by Olga Desmond and Harald Kreutzberg
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Dance · German · Literature · Narrative · SWORD · Arts, Culture, and Music Studies · Diversity and Impact of Dance · History · Physical education and sports games research
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
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