List of figures | p. xi |
Acknowledgements | p. xii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Dance and theatre roots and connections | p. 9 |
Dance Theatre from Rudloph Laban to Pina Bausch | p. 12 |
Expressionism?: "Ausdruckstanz" and the New Dance Theatre in Germany | p. 19 |
An American perspective on Tanztheater | p. 31 |
The theatre of images: Pina Bausch and the expressionist temperament | p. 45 |
The mistrust of life - relations in dance: connections between Butoh, Ausdruckstanz and Dance Theatre in contemporary experimental dance | p. 49 |
Hurts so good | p. 55 |
Creating Bausch's world | p. 59 |
Into myself - a twig, a wall: an essay on Pina Bausch and her theatre | p. 62 |
In rehearsal with Pina Bausch | p. 74 |
Pina Bausch: "You can always look at it the other way around" | p. 81 |
"I pick my dancers as people": Pina Bausch discusses her work with the Wuppertal Dance Theatre | p. 88 |
"Every day a discovery … ": interview with Pina Bausch | p. 99 |
Working with Pina Bausch: a conversation with Tanztheater Wuppertal | p. 103 |
Nur Du (Only You): Pina Bausch, Tanztheater Wuppertal in a newly commissioned piece | p. 109 |
Dancing through the dark: Pina Bausch finds a ray of light | p. 123 |
Tanztheater: a new form | p. 129 |
"But is it dance … ?" | p. 132 |
Please do it again, do it again, again, again … | p. 137 |
Dance Theatre: rebellion of the body, theatre of images and an inquiry into the sense of the senses | p. 142 |
Gunsmoke | p. 152 |
"Come dance with me": interview with Pina Bausch | p. 167 |
Bausch's reception | p. 179 |
Tanztheater Wuppertal | p. 182 |
New York City | p. 188 |
Bausch's theatre of dejection | p. 192 |
Wuppertal in London | p. 196 |
Exits and entrances | p. 200 |
Dance view: the Bausch imagination still bedazzles | p. 203 |
Theatre of despair and survival | p. 206 |
Bausch's inferno | p. 212 |
Pina, queen of the deep | p. 217 |
Dancing in the dark | p. 224 |
Pornography of pain: dancer Pina Bausch's turbulent career | p. 233 |
In memoriam: Pina Bausch (1940-2009) | p. 236 |
Kontakthof, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Barbican Theatre | p. 240 |
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch | p. 243 |
Critical perspectives | p. 247 |
Tanztheater: the thrill of the lynch mob or the rage of a woman | p. 250 |
Artifice and authenticity: gender scenarios in Pina Bausch's Dance Theatre | p. 264 |
The weight of time | p. 278 |
The totality of the body: an essay on Pina Bausch's aesthetic | p. 288 |
Bausch and phenomenology | p. 300 |
On the seduction of angels: conjectures about the Zeitgeiz | p. 307 |
Further research | p. 313 |
Index | p. 335 |
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