Les Ballets C de la B was founded by Alain Platel in 1984. Since then it has become a company that enjoys great success at home and abroad. Over the years, Platel has developed a unique choreographic oeuvre. His motto, 'This dance is for the world and the world is for everyone', reveals a deep social and political commitment.
Through the three topics of emotions, gestures and politics, this book unravels the choreopolitics of Platel's Les Ballets C de la B. His choreopolitics go beyond conveying a (political) message because rather than defending one opinion, Platel is more concerned about the exposure of the complexity within the debate itself.
Highly respected scholars from different fields contribute to this book to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the intense emotions, the damaged narratives, and the precarious bodies in Platel's choreographic oeuvre.
Papildus informācija
Provides a thematic and chronological overview of the whole choreographic oeuvre of Flemish choreographer Alain Platel and his company Les Ballets C de la B.
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| Series Editors' Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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1 Introduction Christel Stalpaert, Guy Cools and Hildegard De Vuyst |
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Part One Multiple Dramaturgies |
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2 A Dramaturgy of Stuttering Guy Cools |
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3 `An Experiment in Democracy': Alain Platel's Collaborative Dramaturgy Katalin Trencsenyi |
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4 Alain Wins a Prize Hildegard De Vuyst |
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5 Being Alone Together: Alain Platel and the `Disturbance of Violent Relatedness' in La Tristeza Complice (1995), pitie! (2008) and tauberbach (2014) Ann Cooper Albright |
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6 Desire amongst the Dodgems: Alain Platel and the Scene of Seduction Adrian Kear |
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7 Alain Platel's Quest for Embodied Salvation: A Musical Perspective on C(H)CEURS Francis Maes |
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8 Skin Tests: Views on nicht schlafen Claire Besuelle |
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115 | (21) |
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9 Platel Is a Barbarian Hildegard De Vuyst |
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136 | (9) |
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10 Bernadetje, Catastrophes and Gestures Erwin Jans |
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11 Choreic Gesture: Virtuosic Angularity, Alterkinetic Dance in Platel's Out of Context -for Pina Kilina Gotman |
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12 Staging the Precarious: Vulnerability and Sexual Identity in Alain Platel's Gardenia Miriam Dreysse |
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13 tauberbach, a Diagrammatical Reading: The Body between Self and Language PietDefraeye |
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14 Schizophrenia and Resistance: On tauberbach Jeroen Donckers |
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15 Mourning a Europe in Crisis: les ballets C de la B's En avant, marche! (2015) Lourdes Orozco |
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16 Troubled Pasts and Presents, Differential Futures: Alain Platel's Choreopolitics with les ballets C de la B Christel Stalpaert |
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17 Offspring Hildegard De Vuyst |
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Christel Stalpaert is Full Professor Theatre, Performance and Media Studies at Ghent University, Belgium where she is Director of the research centres S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media) and PEPPER (Philosophy, Ethology, Politics and Performance).
Guy Cools is a dance dramaturg at Ghent University, Belgium. His focus is production dramaturgy, contributing to work by choreographers all over Europe and Canada.
Hildegard De Vuyst is Dramaturg of Les Ballets C de la B, Belgium, where she has worked since 1994.
