The 1960s and 1970s in the Federal Republic of Germany were characterised by major social upheaval. A driving force behind this was a young generation born during the Second World War, who set new standards in art and culture. One of them was Pina Bausch, born in 1940, the daughter of an innkeeper in Solingen, a city almost completely destroyed during the last years of the war.
How did Pina Bausch manage to invent a radically new aesthetic with the Tanztheater Wuppertal and, despite a lack of (female) role models and fierce opposition, influence the history of artistic dance in the 20th century worldwide?
Speaker｜Gabriele Klein (Germany)
Dr. Gabriele Klein is Professor of Sociology with focus on Human Movement Science, Dance and Performance Studies at Hamburg University since 2002. Since 2022 she is also Professor of Ballet and Dance (Hans van Manen Chair) at the University of Amsterdam. Her English book publications include books like Dance (and) Theory (2013, with G. Brandstetter), Emerging Bodies (2011, with S. Noeth) and issues like On Labour and Performance (Performance Research 2012, with B. Kunst) as well as numerous articles like “Urban Choreographies”, in: The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics (2017). Pina Bausch’s Dance Theater. Company, Artistic Practices, and Reception (2020) (also in German and Russian), Materialities in Dance and Performance. Writing, Documenting, Archiving (with F.A. Cramer) (2024).
Moderator｜CHEN Ya-Ping (Taiwan)
CHEN Ya-Ping (PhD in Performance Studies, NYU), a dance scholar and critic, is associate professor and director of Master’s and PhD programs at the School of Dance, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan. She served as the president of Taiwan Dance Research Society from 2019-2022. She authors two Chinese monographs: Beholding Wugou: Reading Lin Lee-Chen’s Dances through Zhuangzi, Animism, and Posthumanism (2024) and Enquiry into Subjectivity: Modernity, History, Taiwan Contemporary Dance (2011); coedits two anthologies: Corporeality One: In Search of Asian Corporeality (2021) and Corporeality Two: Archive, Medium, Technique (2024). Her research interests are dance history, theories of modernity, transcultural studies of corporeal philosophy, interdisciplinary studies on Zhuangzi, New Materialism and posthumanist theories
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