★★✰✰✰ It’s three hours long, not including the interval. But a tanztheater classic this is not...
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Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ It's impossible to make coherent sense of a Bausch piece, whatever the source of her inspiration.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ How do you find the soul of a city? It was a challenge that Pina Bausch and her company took on again and again with their World Cities series of tanztheater works – and "Masurca Fogo", made in 1998, must rank as one of the most successful attempts.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Herein lies one of the more unfortunate traits of Kontakthof: there is more madness than dancing...
The cast’s collective maturity serves the work well since the central theme of many of the 50 or so episodes concerns the passage of life; concentrating especially on memories of childhood and youth contrasting with images of old age.
Working backwards from the title song that ends Two Cigarettes in the Dark, it’s possible to discern a theme in Pina Bausch’s 1985 piece...
Sometimes Água’s moving images are dizzyingly beautiful, undulating palm fronds echoing the women’s waving tresses; sometimes they seem reminders that civilisation is only skin deep; or that the untamed jungle is indifferent to human concerns.
Ten Chi is like a musical composition mostly in a minor key – an accumulation of moments and motifs without a strong sense of purpose. In fact, much of the recorded music seems half-heard in sleep. There’s a pervasive feeling of melancholy, of a culture beyond comprehension except in crass tourist terms.