tanztheater
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See also: Tanztheater
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Tanztheater (literally “dance theatre”).
Noun
[edit]tanztheater (uncountable)
- A form of German expressionist dance.
- 2008, Karen K. Bradley, Rudolf Laban, →ISBN, page 30:
- This tension between freedom/flow/innovation and control/containment/regulation of patterns lies at the heart of tanztheater in general, and Laban's approach to performance in particular.
- 2009 July 1, Daniel J. Wakin, quoting Joseph V. Melillo, “Pina Bausch, German Choreographer, Dies at 68”, in New York Times[1]:
- “The whole scale of Pina Bausch’s tanztheater no one had ever seen before,” he added.