1st Edition
Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness Repurposing Theater through Dance
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION: TELL ME A STORY 1. DANCE DRAMATURGY POEM #1 Storytelling 2. MONTAGE POEM #2 The Head Biting the Tail 3. ALIENATION POEM #3 Madhatter’s Refusal 4. POOR DANCE THEATER POEM #4 Wasteful Wanting 5. DANCE THEATER OF CRUELTY POEM #5 Shadowing 6. DRAMATURGY FOR EMPTY SPACES POEM #6 Giving Voice to Motion 7. VIEWPOINTS AS A POINT OF VIEW POEM #7 Signs Gestured 8. EXTENDED MOMENTS IN REPETITION POEM #8 Parting Company 9. DANCE, DANCE, OTHERWISE WE ARE LOST POEM #9 Truer Subtexts 10. FROM JOOSS TO BAUSCH AND BEYOND: WHAT GESTURE FORGIVES POEM #10 Ballet Slippers Gone Rogue APPENDIX A: INTERVIEW WITH BAUSCH DANCER JULIE FLANNIGAN APPENDIX B: INTERVIEW WITH BAUSCH DANCER and REHEARSAL DIRECTOR DAPHNIS KOKKINOS WORKS CITED INDEX
Biography
Telory D. Arendell, PhD, is Associate Professor at Missouri State University, USA. She has published three books: Dance’s Duet with the Camera: Motion Pictures (2016); The Autistic Stage: How Cognitive Disability Changed 20th-Century Performance (2015); and Performing Disability: Staging the Actual (2009).
