Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness

<p><em>Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness: Repurposing Theater through Dance</em> maps Bausch’s pieces alongside methodologies of key theater and film practitioners.</p><p></p><p>This book includes discussion of a variety of Bausch pieces, including <i>Sacre du Printemps </i>(<i>Rite of Spring</i> 1975), <i>Kontakthof </i>(<i>Meeting Place </i>1978), <i>Café Müller</i> (<i>Café Mueller </i>1978), <i>Nelken </i>(<i>Carnations </i>1982), <i>Arien </i>(<i>Arias </i>1985), and <i>Vollmond</i> (<i>Full Moon</i> 2006). Beginning with her approach as one avenue of dance dramaturgy, the author connects the content expressed in these pieces with theoretical conversations, works from other artists inspired by Bausch, and her own experiences, providing an examination that is both academic and personally insightful. Arendell reads all of these theatrical and film approaches into Bausch’s work to highlight how the time frame involves a cross-pollination between Bausch and the other artists that looks both backward and forward in its influences.</p><p></p><p>Ideal for students of dance and theater, <i>Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness </i>shows how Bausch’s <i>Tanztheater</i> speaks a kinaesthetic language, one that Arendell translates into a somaesthetic exploration to pair a repurposed body ethic with movements that present new forms of embodiment.</p> <p>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION: TELL ME A STORY <strong>1. DANCE DRAMATURGY</strong> POEM #1 Storytelling <b>2. MONTAGE </b>POEM #2 The Head Biting the Tail <b>3. ALIENATION </b>POEM #3 Madhatter’s Refusal <b>4. POOR DANCE THEATER </b>POEM #4 Wasteful Wanting <b>5. DANCE THEATER OF CRUELTY </b>POEM #5 Shadowing <b>6. DRAMATURGY FOR EMPTY SPACES </b>POEM #6 Giving Voice to Motion <b>7. VIEWPOINTS AS A POINT OF VIEW </b>POEM #7 Signs Gestured <b>8. EXTENDED MOMENTS IN REPETITION </b>POEM #8 Parting Company <b>9. DANCE, DANCE, OTHERWISE WE ARE LOST </b>POEM #9 Truer Subtexts <b>10. FROM JOOSS TO BAUSCH AND BEYOND: WHAT GESTURE FORGIVES </b>POEM #10 Ballet Slippers Gone Rogue <b>APPENDIX A: </b>INTERVIEW WITH BAUSCH DANCER JULIE FLANNIGAN <b>APPENDIX B: </b>INTERVIEW WITH BAUSCH DANCER and REHEARSAL DIRECTOR DAPHNIS KOKKINOS WORKS CITED INDEX</p>