Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION: TELL ME A STORY 1. DANCE DRAMATURGY POEM #1 Storytelling 2. MONTAGE POEM #2 The Head Biting the Tail 3. ALIENATION POEM #3 Madhatter’s Refusal 4. POOR DANCE THEATER POEM #4 Wasteful Wanting 5. DANCE THEATER OF CRUELTY POEM #5 Shadowing 6. DRAMATURGY FOR EMPTY SPACES POEM #6 Giving Voice to Motion 7. VIEWPOINTS AS A POINT OF VIEW POEM #7 Signs Gestured 8. EXTENDED MOMENTS IN REPETITION POEM #8 Parting Company 9. DANCE, DANCE, OTHERWISE WE ARE LOST POEM #9 Truer Subtexts 10. FROM JOOSS TO BAUSCH AND BEYOND: WHAT GESTURE FORGIVES POEM #10 Ballet Slippers Gone Rogue APPENDIX A: INTERVIEW WITH BAUSCH DANCER JULIE FLANNIGAN APPENDIX B: INTERVIEW WITH BAUSCH DANCER and REHEARSAL DIRECTOR DAPHNIS KOKKINOS WORKS CITED INDEX

About the Author

Telory D. Arendell, PhD, is Associate Professor at Missouri State University, USA. She has published three books: Dance’s Duet with the Camera: Motion Pictures (2016); The Autistic Stage: How Cognitive Disability Changed 20th-Century Performance (2015); and Performing Disability: Staging the Actual (2009).