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Giersdorf, Jens.

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Choreographing socialism: Bodies and performance in East Germany before, during, and after the fall of the Wall.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Choreographing socialism: Bodies and performance in East Germany before, during, and after the fall of the Wall./
Author:	Giersdorf, Jens.
Description:	335 p.
Notes:	Chairs: Susan Leigh Foster; Sue-Ellen Case.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-09A.
Subject:	Dance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3026464
ISBN:	0493385940

Choreographing socialism: Bodies and performance in East Germany before, during, and after the fall of the Wall.
Giersdorf, Jens.

Choreographing socialism: Bodies and performance in East Germany before, during, and after the fall of the Wall. - 335 p.

Chairs: Susan Leigh Foster; Sue-Ellen Case.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2001.

I focus in this dissertation on state composed norms of corporeal identity and the resistance to these disciplinings in East Germany before, during, and after the Fall of the Berlin Wall. I demonstrate how the East German state, as a surveillance society, stipulated the choreography for every moment of public and private life. By recalling the Classical past in combination with an employment of Marxism-Leninism, the GDR established itself as the real successor of German pre-war society. The state determined art historical truth to secure its own power by building a national history with a national identity as the main tool of that power. The first part of my dissertation explores the choreographic impact of that disciplining apparatus on the mass body as well as individual bodies, and situates it in relation to the moral and political standards of this socialist society. Looking at East Germany as a theatrical system, I then go on to examine emblematic every-day situations and theater productions in order to elucidate the significance of resistance to the socialist disciplining in this complex cultural context. I employ theories of class and gender and notions of performance as they apply to daily life, as well as theatrical representations. By tracking the moving body across these two domains, I am able to pursue questions about national identity, gender, sexuality, and the relationship between the individual and society. I am particularly interested in analyzing national specificities as they are manifested in inventive choreographic adaptations to societal protocols, whether pedestrian or theatrical. Focusing on transformations of corporeal identities in times of major ontological shifts, I examine in the last chapter the crucial moment of the reunification of East and West Germany. By dealing with the ending of the socialist East German state and the beginning of the united German nation, I explore how citizens adjusted their bodies to the collapse and creation of societal structures. Dance theory, with its focus on all elements of choreography, provides a valuable tool to understand the structure of the social at large.

ISBN: 0493385940Subjects--Topical Terms:

610547
Dance.

Choreographing socialism: Bodies and performance in East Germany before, during, and after the fall of the Wall.
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