I don’t remember a time when I smiled more during a theatrical experience than watching Der Fensterputzer. Originally premiered in February 1997, Der Fensterputzer boasts one of Bausch and long-time design collaborator Peter Pabst’s iconic images: a mountain of heaped red flowers piled twenty feet into the air. It provides a wonderfully inventive, funny and moving landscape as […]

If I love a book I devour it as quickly as possible. I’ve spent days reading when I should be eating, sleeping or working. I don’t think I’m alone in this; it’s the absolute absorption in such occurrences that appeals to us, to be able to turn our backs on this world and leap into […]

As part of the World Cities 2012 series Tanztheater Wuppertal’s response to Chile is infused with a lightness of spirit. Even the name, ‘…como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si…’, seems to mischievously wink at you. Take a look at a picture of ‘el muguito’ and you’ll see what I mean. Whilst […]

This summer, as advertisements in the Tube trumpet, the world will come to London. For some theatregoers, the world will already have arrived, with the Tanztheater Wuppertal’s revival of their late, visionary choreographer Pina Bausch’s Global Cities, ten pieces of ‘dance-theatre’ inspired and commissioned by metropoli ranging from Rome to Hong Kong. The current revival is […]

By the end of Mega, I am dancing in the rain with a stranger to the persuasive beat of MC Hammer that no one apart from us can hear. Passers-by pause in the driving Ipswich rain to take photos of us on their phones. I am a self-conscious audience member, and this is an unlikely outcome, […]