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Pina Bausch's Dance Theater

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This volume provides new perspectives on the Tanztheater Wuppertal and its iconic founder and artistic director—Pina Bausch. This is the first book to focus on the artistic research conducted for t...
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  • 04 August 2020
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This volume provides new, ground-breaking perspectives on the globally renowned work of the Tanztheater Wuppertal and its iconic founder and artistic director, Pina Bausch. The company's performances, how it developed its productions, the global transfer of its choreographic material and the reactions of audiences and critics are explained as complex, interdependent and reciprocal processes of translation. This is the first book to focus on the artistic research conducted for the Tanztheater's international coproductions and features extensive interviews with dancers, collaborators and spectators and provides first-hand ethnographic insights into the work process. By introducing the praxeology of translation as a key methodological concept for dance research, Gabriele Klein argues that Pina Bausch's lasting legacy is defined by an entanglement of temporalities that challenges the notion of contemporaneity.
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Price: $35.00
Pages: 440
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 04 August 2020
Trim Size: 9.45 X 6.30 in
ISBN: 9783837650556
Format: Paperback
BISACs: PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, ART / European
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»A book [...] which represents the character of a benchmark study on the legend and the phenomenon of Pina Bausch and which refutes, supports and documents many of the previous second-hand publications [...].«
Gabriele Klein (Dr. rer. soc.) has been a full professor of sociology with a focus on human movement science, dance and performance studies at Universität Hamburg since 2002. Since 2022 she has also been professor of ballet and dance (Hans-van-Manen Chair) at the University of Amsterdam. She is PI of the Cluster of Excellence »Understanding Written Artefacts« at Universität Hamburg. From 2022 to 2023, she was a fellow at the research center »global dis:connect«.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 6
Introduction 8
Pieces 20
Company 86
Work Process 164
Solo Dance 240
Reception 278
Theory and Methodology 330
Conclusion 382
Indexes 398