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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Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Two Cigarettes in the Dark
February 15th, 2013 by Thomas JM WilsonTwo 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 […]
Tanztheater Wuppertal / Pina Bausch: Agua
July 29th, 2012 by Miriam (Mim) KingI 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 […]
Tanztheater Wuppertal / Pina Bausch: Der Fensterputzer (The Window Washer)
June 19th, 2012 by Terry O'DonovanI 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 […]
Tanztheater Wuppertal / Pina Bausch: …como el musguito en la piedra, ay si si si…
June 12th, 2012 by Rebecca NesvetAs 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 […]