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Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Vollmond | Photo: Laurent Phillipe

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Vollmond

February 23rd, 2013 by

Showing as a revival alongside Two Cigarettes In the Dark, Vollmond, meaning full moon, was first performed in 2006. The company of twelve dancers offered a chair for the audience’s ‘ghost to have seat too’, embodying our alter-ego on stage. They filled a bleak, barren, landscape with a series of sketches drawing on social relationships and behaviour […]

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Two Cigarettes in the Dark | Photo: Jochen Viehoff

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Two Cigarettes in the Dark

February 15th, 2013 by

Two Cigarettes in the Dark opens on a stage that is anything but dark. Instead a brilliant white high-walled ballroom occupies the space, framed on three sides by room-sized glass-fronted vivariums – verdant tropical foliage in one, a mini desert and cactus in another, and a giant fish tank in the third. These decidedly artificial landscapes […]

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Pina Bausch: Agua ¦ Photo: Oliver Look

Tanztheater Wuppertal / Pina Bausch: Agua

July 29th, 2012 by

I first saw Pina Bausch’s Kontakthof in the early 1980s, and, thirty years later, sat in the midst of an excited audience, here I am again to see a restaging of her 2001 work Agua. Spanning completely the rear of the stage there’s luscious verdant green projections of palm tree fronds rippling in sultry breezes. A couple are […]

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Tanztheater Wuppertal, Der Fensterputzer ¦ Photo: Oliver Look

Tanztheater Wuppertal / Pina Bausch: Der Fensterputzer (The Window Washer)

June 19th, 2012 by

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 […]

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Tanztheater Wuppertal: ...como el musguito en la piedra ¦ Photo: Aydin Herwegh

Tanztheater Wuppertal / Pina Bausch: …como el musguito en la piedra, ay si si si…

June 12th, 2012 by

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 […]

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