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Ecstasy and the Demon The Dances of Mary Wigman Susan Manning Table of Contents		$26.50 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-3802-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3802-4
. Winner of the de la Torre Bueno prize—with a new introduction by the author. “Manning’s book is a great achievement—excellently researched, elegantly reasoned, provocative, fervent.” —Village Voice “After this book, the historical study of German modernism will never be the same.” —Dance Research Journal Mary Wigman, Germany’s premier dancer between the two world wars, envisioned the performer in the thrall of ecstatic and demonic forces. Widely hailed as an innovator of dance modernism, she never acknowledged her complex relationship with National Socialism. In Ecstasy and the Demon, Susan Manning advances a sociological explanation for the collaboration between German modern dancers and National Socialism. She models methods for dance studies that contextualize choreography in relation to changing sociopolitical conditions, bringing dance scholarship into conversation with intellectual trends across the humanities. The introduction to this second edition brings Manning’s groundbreaking work to bear on dance studies today and reconsiders Wigman’s career from the perspective of queer theory and globalization, further illuminating the interplay of dance and politics in the twentieth century. “Ecstasy and the Demon is a rich and wide-ranging book which is beautifully and clearly illustrated throughout. The author provides her own reconstructions of Wigman’s dances and mobilizes different readings of the same dance to produce a more complex understanding of modern dance. In her final chapter she also contributes to the historiography of modern American dance and brings to light the very different reception of Wigman in the States and in Germany. Readers who were not aware that dance is subject to the same political, economic, ideological, and sociological contexts as any other art form will have their eyes opened.” —German History Susan Manning is professor of English, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University and author of Modern Dance, Negro Dance. 376 pages | 65 halftones | 5 7⁄8 x 9 | 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction to the New Edition Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Ideology and Absolute Dance The Master-Narrative of Absolute Dance Rewriting the History of Modern Dance 2. Gestalt im Raum Wigman’s Early Life, 1886-1910 Hellerau and Monte Verita, 1910-1919 Solos, 1914-1919 Group Dances, 1914-1919 3. Mask and Gemeinschaft The Wigman School, 1920-1932 Group Dances, 1921-1926 Witch Dance 4. From Modernism to Fascism Crisis Response 5. Body Politic Group Dances, 1934-1936 The Wigman School, 1934-1942 Solos, 1937-1942 6. From Ausdrunkstanz to Tanztheater Wigman’s Life and Career, 1942-1973 Dance in Divided German, 1973-1989 7. Mary Wigman and American Dance The Reception of Wigman’s American Tours Leftists, Humanists, and Hanya Holm The Postwar Historiography of Modern Dance Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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