CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vi
4. List of Choreographies vii
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. A Bilingual Dancer 5
8. 2. New Beginnings: The Origins of Bausch’s Tanztheater 36
9. 3. Unmasked, Unfinished, Unresolved: A Dance Theatre of the Absurd 67
10. 4. Violent Acts: Traversing the Postwar Landscape 99
11. 5. Transient Tanztheater: The Co-Production Model 131
12. 6. ‘I Only Tried To Speak About Us’ 163
13. Concluding Thoughts 193
14. Bibliography 196
15. Index 208