Pina Bausch and the Wuppertal Dance Theater : the aesthetics of repetition and transformation / Ciane Fernandes ; with a foreword by RoseLee Goldberg and a preface by Susanne Schlichler.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-129) and index.

Foreword / RoseLee Goldberg -- Preface / Susanne Schlicher -- 1. German Dance Theater: Aesthetic Considerations -- 2. The Creative Process: (Dis)Assembling Characters and Scenes -- 3. Between Artificiality and Experience: The Re-Presented Gesture -- 4. Repetitive Bonds of Power: Torture, Value, and Needs of the Body -- 5. Through Repetition: The Absence of Meaning and the Meaning of Absence -- 6. "Redancing" History: Reconstruction and Transformation -- 7. Spiraling Bodies: Difference over Dichotomy -- App. A. Interview with Dancer Ruth Amarante -- App. B. Interview with Dance Julie Shanahan.

"This book embarks on an interdisciplinary study of dance theater, one that provides a deeper insight into contemporary performing arts. Ciane Fernandes combines Laban movement analysis and the writings of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault to investigate repetition in the works and creative process of Pina Bausch (b.1940), who is considered to be one of the most important choreographers of the twentieth century. This book examines repetition in Bausch's pieces as both method and subject, exploring its power in the metamorphosis of meaning. Repetition is used to subvert its own process of domination over the body at aesthetic, cognitive, and social levels. The body simultaneously becomes natural and linguistic, experiential and automatic, personal and social, constantly repeating and transforming the history of its domination."--BOOK JACKET.

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