Introduction: The Choreographic Work of Alain Platel in Context (Christel Stalpaert, Ghent University, Belgium; Guy Cools, Ghent University, Belgium; and Hildegard De Vuyst, Les Ballets C de la B, Belgium) 1. Collaborative Dramaturgy: An Experiment in Democracy (Katalin Trencsenyi, Freelance Dramaturg, UK) Part I: Emotions 2. Alain Platel is a Barbarian: Perceiving Emotions as Forms of Intelligent Awareness (Hildegard De Vuyst, Les Ballets C de la B, Belgium) 3. Desire amongst the Dodgems: The Scene of Seduction (Adrian Kear, Aberystwyth University, UK) 4. Platel's Quest for Embodied Salvation: A Musical Perspective on Choeurs (Francis Maes, Ghent University, Belgium) 5. Poetics of Fight in Nicht Schlafen (Claire Besuelle, Ecole Doctorale Sciences de l'homme et de la Societe, France) Part II: Gestures 6. How to Witness the Hyper-Sensitive Through the Virtuosic: I Have Never Seen Anybody Who Can Participate So Intensely While Standing Aside (Guy Cools, Ghent University, Belgium) 7. Choreic Gesture: Virtuosic Angularity and Alterkinetic Dance in Platel's Out of Context: For Pina (2010) (Kelina Gotman, King's College, London, UK) 8. Being Alone Together: The 'Disturbance of Violent Relatedness' in La Tristeza Complice, Pitie and Tauberbach (Ann Cooper Albright, Oberlin College and Conservatory, USA) 9. Staging the Precarious: Vulnerability and Sexual Identity in Gardenia (Miriam Dreysse, Universitat Hildesheim, Germany) 10. Schizophrenia and Resistance: On Tauberbach (Jeroen Donckers, Independent Psychotherapist, Belgium) Part III: Politics 11. Catastrophe as Political Gesture: On Gestus and Hieroglyphs in Bernadetje (Erwin Jans, Dramaturg, Toneelhuis, Belgium) 12. Tauberbach: A Diagrammatical Reading (Piet Defraeye, University of Alberta, Canada) 13. Mourning a Europe in Crisis: En Avant, Marche! (Lourdes Orozco, University of Leeds, UK) 14. Troubled Pasts, Differential Futures: Platel's Choreopolitics with Les Ballets C de la B (Christel Stalpaert, Ghent University, Belgium) Conclusion: A Genealogical Perspective on Les Ballets C de la B's Influences and Offspring (Christel Stalpaert, Ghent University, Belgium; Guy Cools, Ghent University, Belgium; and Hildegard De Vuyst, Les Ballets C de la B, Belgium) Bibliography Index
