This volume foregrounds Pina Bausch, Romeo Castellucci and Jan Fabre as three leading directors who have each left an indelible mark on post-war European theatre. Combining in-depth discussions of the artists’ poetics with detailed case studies of several famous and lesser-known key works, the authors featured in this volume trace a range of foundational aesthetic strategies that are central to the directors’ work: the dynamics of repetition vis-à-vis fragmentation, the continued significance of language in experimental theatre and dance, the tension between theatricality and the performative reality of the stage, and the equal importance attached to text, image and body. This volume develops a vivid picture of how European stage directors have continued to redefine their own position and role throughout the latter half of the 20th century.
List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction to the Series, Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK) Introduction to Volume 8, Luk Van den Dries and Timmy De Laet (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Pina Bausch 1. Directing Bodies in Dance: A Visit to Pina Bausch, Now and Then, Mariama Diagne (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 2. Imagistic Structure in the Work of Pina Bausch, Royd Climenhaga Word (Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, USA) Romeo Castellucci 3. Romeo Castellucci or the Visionary of the Non-Visual, Eleni Papalexiou (University of the Peloponnese, Greece) 4. The Transgressive Theatre of Romeo Castellucci, Thomas Crombez (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Jan Fabre 5. Becoming Something Else: The Transformative Aesthetics of Jan Fabre, Luk Van den Dries (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 6. The Titan of Paradoxes, Hans-Thies Lehmann (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany) Notes Bibliography Index
Luk Van den Dries is Full Professor of Theatre at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Timmy De Laet is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
