Thesiss

Oftentimes, we think of the concepts of the “primitive” and the virtuosic as being unrelated, contradictory, or even diametrically opposed. In rock drumming, however, the concepts can and do overlap. Consider the way that The Who’s drummer Keith Moon embodies the wild-man drumme…

This thesis puts German modern dancer/choreographer Mary Wigman’s use of a mask in dialogue with that of Expressionist painters Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Emil Nolde. From the early 1910s, Kirchner and Nolde began to feature masks and mask-like faces in their art. They derived th…