New German Dance Studies

Editors’ Acknowledgments

Editors’ Acknowledgments Susan Manning and Lucia Ruprecht We first must thank all our authors, who responded excitedly to our initial queries four years ago and who have responded to all our subsequent queries with equal enthusiasm. No edited volume can encompass all the first-rate scholarship in a field, and we are well aware of how many other authors might have added their voices to this collection. Indeed, this anthology emerged from our sense that the last decade has witnessed such a rich outpouring of scholarship on dance in German-speaking Europe that a collection was warranted. So in the broadest sense, we are indebted to all the authors who have contributed to the field, whether they are represented in this volume or not. We have attempted to survey the broader field through our introductory essay, yet we fear that we undoubtedly have included only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Our home institutions contributed financial support that enabled us to engage graduate students as our able assistants.At Cambridge University Charlotte Lee, Christopher Geissler, and Max Haberich translated essays written in German into (British) English. At Northwestern University Tara Rodman served as our (American English) copy editor and our project organizer, tracking all the myriad details necessary for collaboration across two continents. For granting us permission to reprint illustrations, we thank the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, the Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resources, the Derra de Moroda Dance Archive, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, the German Dance Archive in Cologne, the Harvard Theatre Collection, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Staatliche Kunstsamm­ lungen in Dresden, Stiftung Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung, and the Transit-Film-Gesellschaft. After years of conversations at theater and dance conferences, Susan finally sent a book proposal to Joan Catapano, associate director and editor in chief i-xii_1-284_Mann.indd 7 4/5/12 3:29 PM viii Editors’ Acknowledgments at the University of Illinois Press, and Joan proved as wonderful an editor as Susan had always suspected she would be. But, alas, Susan had waited too long and Joan retired just after the manuscript was accepted. For more than two decades, Joan had published dance scholarship, first at Indiana University Press and then at Illinois. On behalf of the field as a whole, we extend our thanks to Joan for her many years of editorial support. Luckily, Joan passed the job of seeing the manuscript through publication to her able associate, Danny Nasset, and we thank Danny and the remainder of the team at Illinois—Nancy Albright, Jennifer Clark, Roberta J. Sparenberg —for their professionalism. As readers for the press, Susan Foster and Helga Kraft helped us balance our address to scholars in German studies and in dance studies and we appreciate their divergent perspectives. Lucia has spent much of her career at precisely this intersection between German cultural studies and dance studies. Working with Susan and with all the contributors to this volume has encouraged her interest in bringing the two fields together, an interest not least fueled by the increasing number of students of German who turn to her with much enthusiasm about dance and little guidance about how to find out more. It is to these students that she would like to dedicate her work on New German Dance Studies. Susan first met Lucia in Paris at the joint conference hosted by the Society of Dance History Scholars and the Congress on Research in Dance at the Centre national de la danse. In that Paris summer, Susan reconnected with the family that had first welcomed her to Germany nearly forty years before, and she would like to dedicate her work on this volume to her adopted family —with deep affection for Tina and Konny and in loving memory of Hans, Traud, and Frank. i-xii_1-284_Mann.indd 8 4/5/12 3:29 PM ...