Pina Bausch

Now revised and updated, this volume draws on unprecedented access to Pina Bausch's work to provide a beautfiully written and illustrated guide to her dance theatre. This is an essential introduction to the life and work of one of the most significant choreographers/directors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

This newly-updated second edition explores Pina Bausch's work and methods by combining interviews, first-hand accounts, and practical exercises from her developmental process for students of both dance and theatre. This comprehensive overview of her work offers new and exciting insight into the theatrical approach of a singular performance practitioner.

This is an essential introduction to the life and work of one of the most significant choreographers/directors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today's student.

Autorentext

Royd Climenhaga currently teaches at Eugene Lang College/The New School University in New York City, and is the editor of The Pina Bausch Sourcebook: The Making of Tanztheater.

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Inhalt

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

An Artistic and Contextual History

What Is Said

Kontakthof in Context

Practical Exercises

Bibliography

Index