Introduction / Christel Stalpaert, Guy Cools and Hildegard De Vuyst -- A dramaturgy of stuttering / Guy Cools -- 'An experiment in democracy' : Alain Platel's collaborative dramaturgy / Katalin Trencsényi -- Alain wins a prize / Hildegard De Vuyst -- Being alone together : Alain Platel and the 'disturbance of violent relatedness' in La Tristeza Complice (1995), pitié! (2008) and tauberbach (2014) / Ann Cooper Albright -- Desire amongst the dodgems : Alain Platel and the scene of seduction / Adrian Kear -- Alain Platel's quest for embodied salvation : a musical perspective on C(H)ŒURS / Francis Maes -- Skin tests : views on nicht schlafen / Claire Besuelle -- Platel is a barbarian / Hildegard De Vuyst -- Bernadetje, catastrophes and gestures / Erwin Jans -- Choreic gesture : virtuosic angularity, alterkinetic dance in Platel's Out of context--for Pina / Kélina Gotman -- Staging the precarious : vulnerability and sexual identity in Alain Platel's Gardenia / Miriam Dreysse -- tauberbach, a diagrammatical reading : the body between self and language / Piet Defraeye -- Schizophrenia and resistance : on tauberbach / Jeroen Donckers -- Mourning a Europe in crisis : les Ballets C de la B's En avant, marche! (2015) / Lourdes Orozco -- Troubled pasts and presents, differential futures : Alain Platel's choreopolitics with les Ballets C de la B / Christel Stalpaert -- Offspring / Hildegard De Vuyst, Christel Stalpaert and Guy Cools.