The Body of the People: East German Dance since 1945

Index

219 Index abstract expressionism, 55–56, 67 abstraction, 42, 76, 104; Bunster and, 162; of everyday movements, 46; Fabian and, 151–53; of folk forms, 38, 47; Hoyer and, 102, 104; Kwiatkowski and, 117; Palucca and, 18, 65; Schilling and, 21, 69, 79–82; Waltz and, 142–43; Wigman and, 136 action­sleep sequence, Waltz’s use of, 146 actor, vocalizing, as artistic tool of socialist real­ ism, 144 aesthetic resistance, 114–15 affect, use of term, 198n71 African American dance, 188n10 African American identity, 146 agency, 10–12, 156; and body, 135, 145, 203n9; choreography of, 22, 135–36, 145–53; and resistance, 95, 128 Ahne, Joachim, 194n114 Akademie der Künste (Berlin), 51, 180n7 Alexandrov Ensemble, 38–39, 184n11, 186n37 allemande, 65 Allende, Salvador, 163, 166 Alphasystem (Fabian), 138–39 alternative art scene, 89, 108, 115 alternative performance spaces, 175, 176, 197n54 amateur dance scene, 22–24, 32–34, 47, 117, 185n18 andere Liebe, Die (film, 1988), 125 Anderson, Benedict, 4 Anhaltisches Theater (Dessau), 109 anthropological studies, 141 Aquinas, Thomas, 61, 191n62 Archer, Kenneth, 192n92 archival material, as raw material, 117–18 archives: dance (see dance archives); living, choreography as, 170–75; of Stasi, 93–94 Archives internationales de la danse, 9 Arirang Mass Games (North Korea), 179n3 art, East German: in service to labor, 63, 67; vs. West German, 50–52. See also modernism; socialist realism art, modern: American, 55; and exclusion of African American dance artists, 188n10; La Mer as, 72. See also modern dance; modernism art, socialist realist, vs. modern (“formalist”) art, 50–51, 54. See also modernism; socialist realism art deco, 201n114 “art in socialism,” as East German artistic cate­ gory, 84 artists, East German, changing relationship to socialism, 112–15, 138, 144 art nouveau, 201n114 arts and crafts movement, American, 201n114 Asian American identity, 146 atheism, 201n116 atonality, 79 Aufhebung, 198n59 Note: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. 220 Index Ausdruckstanz (expressionist dance), 6, 12, 43, 64, 76, 79–82, 85–86, 162, 173, 206n14; Bun­ ster and, 22–23, 158–70; critique of, 30; diaspora of, 159–70; in Dresden school, 20; Erich­Weinert­Ensemble and, 41; and gender issues, 108–9; Gsovsky and, 17; Hoyer and, 102; institutional structure of, 108–9; Kwiatkowski and, 118; Nachbar and, 106; Palucca and, 18; Palucca School and, 82; and reconstruction, 100; Siegert and, 86–87, 97–99; as weapon in class struggle, 170–75; in West Germany, 105 Auslander, Philip, 56 authenticity, and reconstruction, 99, 197n51 authorship, and reconstruction, 99, 197n51 Bach, Johann Sebastian, Wohltemperierte Klavier, 99 Bachelet, Michelle, 172 Bad Frankenhausen, 77–78 Balanchine, George, 69 Balázs, Béla, 60–61, 190n59 ballet: East German, 18–20; movement vocabu­ lary of, 18, 20, 41, 43, 70, 72, 74, 79, 162; and reconstruction, 100; “revolutionary,” Soviet model of, 20–21; socialist realist, 63–64; Sporck and, 64; West German, 12 ballet companies, East German, 187n43 Ballet Nacional Chileno, 160, 162–64 ballets C de la B, Les, 102 Ballett, use of term, 192n89 Ballett der Deutschen Oper, 83 ballet technique: Erich­Weinert­Ensemble and, 39; Gsovsky and, 17 Banes, Sally, 50 Barba, Fabián, 85, 103, 194n2 Bauer, Conrad, 109 Bauhaus (Dessau), 54, 105, 109 Bausch, Pina, 12, 51, 80, 82, 102, 104, 136, 188n12; Café Müller (1978), 104; Kontakthof (1978), 104; 1980—Ein Stück von Pina Bausch (1980), 104; Le sacre du printemps, 80, 82, 194n113 Baxmann, Inge, 28–29 BDC (dance collective), 102 Beatty, Talley, 188n10 Belinsky, Vissarion G., 193n102 Benjamin, Walter, 132, 202n1 Berfelde, Lothar, 121. See also Mahlsdorf, Charlotte von Berghaus, Ruth, 109 Berio, Luciano, 162 Berlant, Lauren, 126–27 Berlin, as capital of GDR, 190n43. See also East Berlin; West Berlin; and names of cultural institutions Berlin Wall, 7; building of, 13, 19, 49; fall of, 22, 24, 94, 115–16, 124–25, 131–56; march to (1989), 132–34, 203n7 Berlioz, Hector, Roméo et Juliette, 138 Bey, Hannelore, 21, 70 Bey, Holger, Zimmer 15, 187n46 Bhabha, Homi K., 128 Biermann, Wolf, 96, 114, 195n7; expulsion of, 88–89 Bildungsanstalt Jaques­Dalcroze (Hellerau), 28, 85, 98, 115, 183n7 Bitterfeld cultural conferences, 14 Bloch, Ernst, 60–61, 165–66 Bode, Rudolf, 28–29 bodily identity, 202n3 body, dancer’s: Fabian and, 22; Jooss and Leeder and, 166; Kwiatkowski and, 118– 19; relationship to props, 142–43, 143, 146; as site of resistance, 152 body, East German: and dance history, 6–8; idealized, 4 body, female, 92–93; in socialist society, 125–30. See also body...