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Pina Bausch
Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. This book is the first English language overview of Pina Bausch’s work and methods, As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today’s student. Royd Climenhaga currently teaches at Eugene Lang College/The New School University in New York City. He writes on intersections bewteen dance and theater and develops and produces new physical performance works as Co-Artistic director of Human Company.
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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May 6, 2009
Yeah~! If you've seen Almodovar's "Talk to Her," you've seen Bausch's work. Remember the scene in which the characters watch a dance performance, the dancers blindly flailing across the stage cluttered with chairs swept away from their paths? That's Bausch's "Cafe Muller." French 'absence'? Fuck that. Bausch wants presence, expressivist, guilty, pleasurable, literal presence you can feel and smell. She's a soarer and a trampler. "I'm not so interested in how they [dancers:] move. I'm interested in what moves them."
April 4, 2022
Good book to understand Pina's method, its connection to the european contemporary dance context. Sometimes it feels too boring with too lengthy and objectless reflections. Don't know why the author chose Kontakthof to describe it, while there are a lot of more illustrative pieces.
Anyway, the book is worth reading for amateurs and professionals, especially the exercises part to practice with the group or alone.
Anyway, the book is worth reading for amateurs and professionals, especially the exercises part to practice with the group or alone.
August 27, 2018
I love Pina Bausch but this is a book which concentrates on critical analysis and in particular only one of her choreographies - Kontakthof, the least danced, most theatrical of her pieces.It was interesting and insightful about her technique but I was hoping to learn more about the woman herself.
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June 30, 2009So incredibly sad to hear that the great Pina Bausch has passed away. Truly some of the most exhilarating live performances I've ever had the good fortune to see.
December 26, 2023
short, useful
January 25, 2013
If you love Pina this is a must. If you're you are just interested in Pina this is a must. Thank you so much for this key into Pina's heart.
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