Kleist's puppet theatre and the art of tango : looking for the back door to paradise
- This edited transcript of a presentation by filmmaker/choreographer Laura Taler responds to Heinrich von Kleist's text by taking him on as a dancing partner. It follows a simple structure of proposal and response similar to that found in the movements between leader and follower in Argentine tango. Engaging Kleist's text in the double form of a speech and a tango performance, this critical contribution follows a twofold direction: it questions Kleist's representation of dance as a mechanical activity deprived of any form of intelligence and it refuses his attempt to force the aesthetic experience of dance into a framework that privileges theory over bodily experience. These two classical philosophical positions are questioned and provocatively opposed to the dynamic, situated, and dialogic thought performed within a witty tango interaction.
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| Author: | Laura Taler |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-514158 |
| URL: | https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-01/taler_kleists-puppet-theatre.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25620/ci-01_06 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-85132-616-1 |
| Parent Title (English): | Tension/Spannung / ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey. - Wien : Turia + Kant 2010. - (Cultural Inquiry ; 1) - ISBN 978-3-85132-616-1 |
| Publisher: | Turia + Kant |
| Place of publication: | Wien |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/10/16 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2019/10/16 |
| GND Keyword: | Kleist, Heinrich von; Über das Marionettentheater; Tango |
| Page Number: | 10 |
| First Page: | 109 |
| Last Page: | 118 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 455251975 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 792 Bühnenkunst |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |
