This book embarks on an interdisciplinary study of dance theater one that provides a deeper
insight into contemporary performing arts. Ciane Fernandes combines Laban movement analysis and
the writings of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault to investigate repetition in the works and
creative process of Pina Bausch (b.1940) who is considered to be one of the most important
choreographers of the twentieth century. This book examines repetition in Bausch's pieces as
both method and subject exploring its power in the metamorphosis of meaning. Repetition is
used to subvert its own process of domination over the body at aesthetic cognitive and social
levels. The body simultaneously becomes natural and linguistic experiential and automatic
personal and social constantly repeating and transforming the history of its domination.
