This volume provides new, ground-breaking perspectives on the globally renowned work of the Tanztheater Wuppertal and its iconic founder and artistic director, Pina Bausch. The company's performances, how it developed its productions, the global transfer of its choreographic material and the reactions of audiences and critics are explained as complex, interdependent and reciprocal processes of translation. This is the first book to focus on the artistic research conducted for the Tanztheater's international coproductions and features extensive interviews with dancers, collaborators and spectators and provides first-hand ethnographic insights into the work process. By introducing the praxeology of translation as a key methodological concept for dance research, Gabriele Klein argues that Pina Bausch's lasting legacy is defined by an entanglement of temporalities that challenges the notion of contemporaneity.

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Gabriele Klein is professor of dance and performance studies at Hamburg University. She is a member of the Hamburg Cluster of Excellence 'Understanding Written Artefacts'. Her research fields are the social and political theory of dance, choreography, and performance, body politics, and transnational popular dance cultures.

»An informative and personal as well socially relevant reading pleasure, not only for a specialist audience, but for a broad readership.«

»Gabriele Klein [...] offers a fantastic wealth of information, she brings out the characteristic aspects of artistic creation and embeds the pieces in their respective historical, social and political time context.«

»This volume provides new, ground-breaking perspectives on the globally renowned work of the Tanztheater Wuppertal and its iconic founder and artistic director, Pina Bausch.«

»This book [is] designed to suitable for introducing all those interested in culture to Bausch's cosmos, and yet contains sections that provide informative nourishment even for sophisticated specialists.«

»A book [...] which represents the character of a benchmark study on the legend and the phenomenon of Pina Bausch and which refutes, supports and documents many of the previous second-hand publications [...].«

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»Klein [embeds] the artistic creation and work of the entire ensemble in complex cultural, sociological, but also intertextual contexts.The result makes a decisive contribution to being able to view the long-term impact of the artist in a new light ten years after her death.«

»[The reading] is only surpassed by one thing: the visit of a dance evening by Pina Bausch.«

»A work [...] which represents the character of a standard work on the legend and the phenomenon of Pina Bausch and which refutes, supports and documents many of the previous second-hand publications [...].«

»Klein [embeds] the artistic creation and work of the entire ensemble in complex cultural, sociological, but also intertextual contexts.The result makes a decisive contribution to being able to view the long-term impact of the artist in a new light ten years after her death.«

»This book is designed to be a good introduction to Bausch's cosmos for all those interested in culture, while still containing sections that provide informative nourishment for even the most cunning specialists.«

»A comprehensive and absolutely worth reading book.«

»There are no many detailed works about one of the most famous dance companies in the world. The book offers new perspectives on the working process, the members and the reception of Tanztheater Wuppertal and the work of Pina Bausch.«

»An informative and personal as well socially relevant reading pleasure, not only for a specialist audience, but for a broad readership.«

»[The reading] is only surpassed by one thing: the visit of a dance evening by Pina Bausch.«

»Gabriele Klein [...] offers a fantastic wealth of information, she brings out the characteristic aspects of artistic creation and embeds the pieces in their respective historical, social and political time context.«