Tuesday 13 March 2012

Studying Pina Bausch [routledge performance practitioners]

KONTAKTHOF (1978) by Pina Bausch



  • performers walk up and down the stage showing the face, profile, back and theeth to the audience-> make the audience aware of their own implication in the process.
  • 'the theatricality of the moment is enacted on the bodies of the performers themselves'
  • 'i'm not interested in how they move as in what moves them'
  • artists that have influenced her work: Marta Graham, Paul Sanasardo, Anna Sokolow,  Antony Tudor
  • 'themes of gender construction and the poopsition of the sexes were explored in Bausch's early choreography, setting the tone for the work of her mature period'
  • negotiations between 2 styles: george balanchine's ballet and merce cunningham's modern
  • pag 10-11 (go back to them)

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