Meanings
nountanztheater (uncountable)
- uncountableA form of German expressionist dance.
“The whole scale of Pina Bausch’s tanztheater no one had ever seen before,” he added.
2009 July 1, Daniel J. Wakin, quoting Joseph V. Melillo, “Pina Bausch, German Choreographer, Dies at 68”, in New York Times1 more example
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.
2008, Karen K. Bradley, Rudolf Laban, →ISBN, page 30
Origin
- GermanTanztheater
- Englishtanztheater
From German Tanztheater (literally “dance theatre”).
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