The Pina Bausch Sourcebook : The Making of Tanztheater

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Climenhaga, Royd, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bausch, Pina.

Choreographers--Germany--Biography.

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

Tanztheater (Wuppertal, Germany)--History.

Choreographers--History--Germany--Biography.

Choreographers.

Modern dance--Germany--Wuppertal.

Modern dance.

Local Subjects:

Bausch, Pina.

Choreographers--Germany--Biography.

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

Tanztheater (Wuppertal, Germany)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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;

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I: Dance and theatre roots and connections; Dance Theatre from Rudloph Laban to Pina Bausch; Expressionism?: ""Ausdruckstanz"" and the New Dance Theatre in Germany; An American perspective on Tanztheater; The theatre of images: Pina Bausch and the expressionist temperament; The mistrust of life - relations in dance: connections betweenButoh, Ausdruckstanz and Dance Theatre in contemporary experimental dance; Hurts so good; II: Creating Bausch's world

Into myself - a twig, a wall: an essay on Pina Bausch and her theatreIn rehearsal with Pina Bausch; Pina Bausch: ""You can always look at it the other way around""; ""I pick my dancers as people"" Pina Bausch discusses her work with the Wuppertal Dance Theatre; ""Every day a discovery ..."" interview with Pina Bausch; Working with Pina Bausch a conversation with Tanztheater Wuppertal; Nur Du (Only You): Pina Bausch, Tanztheater Wuppertal in a newly commissioned piece; Dancing through the dark Pina Bausch finds a ray of light; III: Tanztheater a new form; ""But is it dance ... ?""

Please do it again, do it again, again, again ...Dance Theatre rebellion of the body, theatre of images and an inquiry into the sense of the senses; Gunsmoke; ""Come dance with me"" interview with Pina Bausch; IV: Bausch's reception; Tanztheater Wuppertal; New York City; Bausch's theatre of dejection; Wuppertal in London; Exits and entrances; Dance view the Bausch imagination still bedazzles; Theatre of despair and survival; Bausch's inferno; Pina, queen of the deep; Dancing in the dark; Pornography of pain dancer Pina Bausch's turbulent career; In memoriam Pina Bausch (1940 - 2009)

Kontakthof, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Barbican TheatreTanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch; V: Critical perspectives; Tanztheater the thrill of the lynch mob or the rage of a woman; Artifice and authenticity gender scenarios in Pina Bausch's Dance Theatre; The weight of time; The totality of the body an essay on Pina Bausch's aesthetic; Bausch and phenomenology; On the seduction of angels conjectures about the Zeitgeiz; Further research; index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-58538-3

9786613897831

0-203-12524-X

1-136-44921-3

9780203125243

OCLC:

810082498