The Pina Bausch sourcebook : the making of Tanztheater / edited by Royd Climenhaga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Climenhaga, Royd, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bausch, Pina.

Tanztheater (Wuppertal, Germany).

Choreographers--Germany--Biography.

Choreographers.

Tanztheater (Wuppertal, Germany)--History.

Modern dance--Germany--Wuppertal--History.

Modern dance.

History.

Germany--Wuppertal.

Germany.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

Pina Bausch's work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina Bausch's history, practice and legacy, and the development of Tanztheater as a new form, with sections including:

Dance and theatre roots and connections.

Bausch's developmental process.

The creation of Tanztheater.

Bausch's reception.

Critical perspectives.

Interviews, reviews and major essays chart the evolution of Bausch's pioneering approach and explore this evocative new mode of performance. Edited by noted Bausch scholar, Royd Climenhaga, The Pina Bausch Sourcebook aims to open up Bausch's performative world for students, scholars, dance and theatre artists and audiences everywhere. Book jacket.

Contents:

pt. 1. Dance and theatre roots and connections

Dance theatre from Rudolph Laban to Pina Bausch / Isa Partsch-Bergsohn

Expressionism? : "Ausdruckstanz" and the new dance theatre in Germany / Hedwig Müller

An American perspective on Tanztheater / Susan Allene Manning

The theatre of images : Pina Bausch and the expressionist temperment / Barbara Confino

The mistrust of life

relations in dance : connections between Butoh, Ausdruckstanz and dance theatre in contemporary experimetnal dance / Eva Van Schaik

Hurts so good / Judith Mackrell

pt. 2. Creating Bausch's world

Into myself

a twig, a wall : an essay on Pima Bausch and her theatre / Raimund Hoghe

In rehearsal with Pina Bausch / Renate Klett

Pina Bausch : "you can always look at it the other way around" / Anne Cattaneo

"I pick my dancers as people" : Pina Bausch discusses her work with the Wuppertal Dance Theatre / Gelnn Loney

"Every day a discovery ..." : interview with Pina Bausch / Christopher Bowen

Working with Pina Bausch : a conversation with Tanztheater Wuppertal / Faynia Wiliams

Nur du (only you) : Pina Bausch, Tanztheater Wuppertal in a newly commissioned piece / Royd Climenhaga

Dancing through the dark : Pina Bausch finds a new ray of light / Rita Felciano

pt. 3. Tanztheater : a new form

"But is it dance ...?" / Richard Sikes

Please do it again, do it again, again, again ... / Deborah Jowitt

Dance theatre : rebellion of the body, theatre of images and an inquiry into the sense of the senses / Inge Baxmann

Gunsmoke / Anita Finkel

"Come dance with me" : interview with Pina Bausch / Nadine Meisner

pt. 4. Bausch's reception

Tanztheater Wuppertal / Hörst Koegler

New York City / Amanda Smith

Bausch's theatre of dejection / Arlene Croce

Wuppertal in London / Judith Cruikshank

Exits and entrances / Leonetta Bentivoglio

Dance view : the Bausch imagination still bedazzles / Anna Kisselgoff

Theatre of despair and survival / Chris De Marigny

Bausch's inferno / Joan Ross Acocella

Pina, queen of the deep / Valerie Lawson

Dancing in the dark / John O'Mahony

Pornography of pain : dancer Pina Bausch's turbulent career / Zoë Anderson

In memoriam : Pina Bausch (1940-2009) / Deborah Jowitt

Kontakthof, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Barbican Theatre / Ismene Brown

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch / Luke Jennings

pt. 5. Critical perspectives

Tanztheater : the thrill of the lynch mob or the rage of a woman / edited by Ann Daly

Artifice and authenticity : gender scenarios in Pina Bausch's dance theatre / Marianne Goldberg

The weight of time / Marianne Van Kerkhoven

The totality of the body : an essay on Pina Bausch's aesthetic / Kay Kirchman

Bausch and phenomenology / Susan Kozel

On the seduction of angels : conjectures about the Zeitgeiz / Norbert Servos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-334) and index.

ISBN:

0415618029

9780415618014

0415618010

9780415618021

9780203125243

020312524X

OCLC:

714730551

Publisher Number:

99954050347