Abstract

HLEBOVICH, Ludmila. Assembling Images: An Exercise in Pina Bausch’s Dance-Theatre. An. Inst. Investig. Estét [online]. 2025, vol.47, n.127, pp.293-320.  Epub Feb 13, 2026. ISSN 0185-1276.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iie.18703062e.2025.127.2924.

A considerable part of Pina Bausch’s work features a multiplicity of fragmented images that are presented simultaneously through montage. Far from strengthening the usual dispositions of perception, this would seem to reproduce the overstimulation of the urban way of life. This article explores the effect of this plethora of images, focusing on the piece 1980. My hypothesis is that multiplicity and fragmentation emphasize the tensions between the images in the montage and that Walter Benjamin’s concept of the dialectical image helps to account for these tensions.

Keywords : Dance-theatre; dialectical image; montage; fragmentation; overstimulation.

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