Ascona as a Performance Space for Women

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The purpose of this research is to explore the importance of the artist colony" Monte Verita" in Ascona for the cultural history of the 20^<th> century and to demonstrate the emancipatory effects that it had on women artists during the period of German modernity, especially Else Lasker-Schuler, Charlotte Bara and Marianne von Werefkin. Furthermore, it analyzes the relationships between dance and psychiatry ; dance and women's gymnastics ; and dance and body movement, The book Odoru shintai no Shigaku[Poetic of the Dancing Bodyl, which presents the results of this research, received two academic prizes as the first comprehensive interdisciplinary study on the dance of German modernity to be published in Japan.