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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12336603.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-129) and index.".
- catalog description "The body simultaneously becomes natural and linguistic, experiential and automatic, personal and social, constantly repeating and transforming the history of its domination."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 146 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0820452513 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "New studies in aesthetics ; vol. 34".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : P. Lang,".
- catalog subject "792.8/2/092 21".
- catalog subject "Bausch, Pina.".
- catalog subject "GV1786.T33 F47 2001".
- catalog subject "Modern dance.".
- catalog subject "Tanztheater (Wuppertal, Germany)".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "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.".
- catalog type "text".