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PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN-101349530484

ISBN-139781349530489

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Book TitleNietzsche's Dancers : Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values

Number of PagesXv, 269 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

TopicHistory & Surveys / General, Religious, Dance / General

IllustratorYes

GenrePhilosophy, Performing Arts

AuthorKimerer L. Lamothe, K. Lamothe

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight13.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Reviews"LaMothe's succulent attention to the phenomenology of dance technique draws persuasive power from beyond the writing itself. Nietzsche's Dancers is not only a study in the recreation of religious values; it is an expression of the bodily conditions it explores. And, in this regard, the joyous engagement expressed on every page refers readers to lived practices of kinetic fluency as the basis for affirmation of life." - Journal of the American Academy of Religion"Strangely, Christianity, the religion of the incarnation - the 'Word made flesh' - has failed to develop the implications of the intimate relationship between incarnation and dance. In this fascinating and important book, LaMothe addresses Christianity's hostility toward dance, an opposition between dance and religion reinforced by scholarship that consistently ignores one or the other. LaMothe shows that the dancers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham responded to Nietzsche's advocacy for a 'dancing religion' by creating dances designed to 'catalyze a renaissance of religion, especially Christianity.' LaMothe argues passionately for awareness of the 'physiological conditions of meaning,' and the realization of an incarnation grounded in breathing and movement." - Margaret R. Miles, Emerita Professor of Historical Theology, The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and author of The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought, "LaMothe's succulent attention to the phenomenology of dance technique draws persuasive power from beyond the writing itself. Nietzsche's Dancers is not only a study in the recreation of religious values; it is an expression of the bodily conditions it explores. And, in this regard, the joyous engagement expressed on every page refers readers to lived practices of kinetic fluency as the basis for affirmation of life." - Journal of the American Academy of Religion"Strangely, Christianity, the religion of the incarnation - the 'Word made flesh' - has failed to develop the implications of the intimate relationship between incarnation and dance. In this fascinating and important book, LaMothe addresses Christianity's hostility toward dance, an opposition between dance and religion reinforced by scholarship that consistently ignores one or the other. LaMothe shows that the dancers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham responded to Nietzsche's advocacy for a 'dancing religion' by creating dances designed to 'catalyze a renaissance of religion, especially Christianity.' LaMothe argues passionately for awareness of the 'physiological conditions of meaning, ' and the realization of an incarnation grounded in breathing and movement." - Margaret R. Miles, Emerita Professor of Historical Theology, The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and author of The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought, "LaMothe's succulent attention to the phenomenology of dance technique draws persuasive power from beyond the writing itself. "Nietzsche's Dancers" is not only a study in the recreation of religious values; it is an expression of the bodily conditions it explores. And, in this regard, the joyous engagement expressed on every page refers readers to lived practices of kinetic fluency as the basis for affirmation of life." --"Journal of the American Academy of Religion" "Strangely, Christianity, the religion of the incarnation--the "Word made flesh"--has failed to develop the implications of the intimate relationship between incarnation and dance. In this fascinating and important book, LaMothe addresses Christianity's hostility toward dance, an opposition between dance and religion reinforced by scholarship that consistently ignores one or the other. LaMothe shows that the dancers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham responded to Nietzsche's advocacy for a "dancing religion" by creating dances designed to "catalyze a renaissance of religion, especially Christianity." LaMothe argues passionately for awareness of the "physiological conditions of meaning," and the realization of an incarnation grounded in breathing and movement."--Margaret R. Miles, Emerita Professor of Historical Theology, The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and author of "The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought"

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Table Of ContentPreface PART I: NIETZSCHE'S DANCE 'A God who Dances' Revaluing Christian Values PART II: ISADORA DUNCAN: DIONYSIAN ARTIST Expressing Life Incarnating Faith in the Body PART III: MARTHA GRAHAM: ATHLETE OF GOD Affirming Life Words and Bodies Conclusion: Dancing Religion

SynopsisThis book investigates the role Nietzsche's dance images play in his project of "revaluing all values" alongside the religious rhetoric and subject matter evident in the work of Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, who found justification and guidance in Nietzsche's texts for developing dance as a medium of religious expression.

LC Classification NumberGV1580-1799.4