Dance and the Body in Western Theatre: 1948 to the Present

Contents

• List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Preface.-
• 1. The Body, Dance and Phenomenology.-
• 2. Writing Dance into Theatre: Antonin Artaud's Affective Athleticism.-
• 3. Choreographing Gestus: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) and the Evolution of Epic Theatre.-
• 4. Dancing the Wrong Side Out: Archetype in Martha Graham (1894-1991) and Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999).-
• 5. Resurrecting the Dancing Chorus in the 1960s: Peter Brook's Marat/Sade (1964), The Living Theatre's Antigone (1967) and Richard Schechner's Dionysus in 69 (1969).-
• 6. Dance and the 1960s Counter-Culture: Merce Cunningham, Anna Halprin and Postmodern Dance.-
• 7. Un-Masking the Social Mask in Post-War Tanztheater: Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Sasha Waltz.-
• 8. From Decolonization to Globalization: Discourses of Freedom and Emancipation in Wole Soyinka, Alvin Ailey, Bill T. Jones, Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.-
• 9. Phenomenological Encounters: Theatre, Dance and Human Rights.- Bibliography.