Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – 1980 – London
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.
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Two Cigarettes in the Dark – London
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…
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Wiesenland – London
‘We do not describe a city’, Bausch is quoted as saying. ‘We describe the feelings we have picked up there.’
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Ten Chi – London
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.
