Border crossings and intra-national trespasses: East German bodies in Sasha Waltz's and Jo Fabian's choreographies

Theatre Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 413-432

  Giersdorf, Jens Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33646774915     PISSN: 01922882     EISSN: 1086332X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/tj.2003.0114     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Walter Benjamin, Das Passagenwerk (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1982). Benjamin's employment o.f "Flanieren" refers also to the German use of the word that connotes more than a simple strolling. It also encompasses a walking along some scenic path, in a park, or along window displays. The action. is as much about enjoying the surrounding as being seen while doing so.
2. Mark Franko, "Mimique/' in. Bodies of the Text, ed. Ellen W. Goellner and Jacqueline Shea Murphy (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995), 205-16.
3. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak, in Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality, & Theatricality in Latin/o America, ed. Diana Taylor and Juan Villegas (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994), 66-111.
4. Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978). There is of course a difference between the racially marked Other and the Other that is marked by political systems, nationhood., and class. However, not only does dance studies as a fairly new discipline has to employ appropriate methodologies and tools from other disciplines, it is also necessary to theorize the visually and nationally undifferentiated Other, such as the citizens of many Eastern European countries. This analysis would have to focus on the interdependence of class, nationality, and culture in relation to already established notions of a racially marked Other, because the already existing predominantly North American discourse on race rarely encompasses the racial differences inside Europe, which are often related to class and nationhood.
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6. Sally Banes, Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, .1987).
7. Petra Stuber, Spielräume und Grenzen; Studien zum DDR-Theater (Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 1998).
8. Petra Stuber. E-mail to the author, 4 December 2000.
9. For a discussion of Fabian's work at three distinct stages of his career and an abridged and earlier version of the analysis of Pax Germania, see Jens Richard Giersdorf, "The Dance Theatre of Jo Fabian: Blown. Away, Pax Germania, and Prometheus," Theatre Forum .15 (1999): 90-96.
10. John Rouse, "Heiner Müller and the Politics of Memory," Theatre Journal 45 (1993): 65.
11. Jana Hensel, Zonenkinder (Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 2002),
12. Katrin Aehnlich, Wenn ich groß bin, flieg ich zu den Sternen (Lemfoerde: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1998),