List of illustrations; List of choreographies; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A Bilingual Dancer; 2. New Beginnings: The Origins of Bausch’s Tanztheater; 3. Unmasked, Unfinished, Unresolved: A Dance Theatre of the Absurd; 4. Violent Acts: Traversing the Postwar Landscape; 5. Transient Tanztheater: The Co-Production Model; 6. ‘I only tried to speak about us’; Bibliography; Index.