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Revisiting Pina Bausch’s World of Love and Longing in Aging Bodies
“Kontakthof,” a pivotal Bausch dance from 1978, is being staged with members of the original cast. They talk about coming back to it nearly 50 years later.
The New Yorker Pina Bausch made what the Germans call Tanztheater—dance theatre—but she also made cinema and song.
Philippina "Pina" Bausch[1] (27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009) was a German performer of modern dance, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director. With her unique style, a blend of movement, sound, and prominent stage sets, and with her elaborate collaboration with performers during the development of a piece (a style now known as Tanztheater), she became a leading influence in the field of modern dance from the 1970s on.[2] She created the companyTanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (de) which performs internationally.
Pina Bausch (center) and Dominique Mercy (second from left) at the end of Wiesenland in 2009 in Paris.
Born 27 July 1940 Solingen, Germany Died 30 June 2009 (aged 68) Wuppertal, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany
Golden Lion Awarded to Pina Bausch for a Life's Work.
Venice Biennale, 2007.
The present compilation of excrepts of pieces by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch was projected on big screen during the Ceremony of Award in July 2007.
Get the The Pina Bausch Sourcebook: The Making of Tanztheater 1st Edition here: https://amzn.to/3f5BurG
In 1972, Bausch started as artistic director of the Wuppertal Opera ballet, which was later renamed as the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (de), run as an independent company. The company has a large repertoire of original pieces, and regularly tours throughout the world from its home base of the Opernhaus Wuppertal.
Frühlingsopfer, premiered in 1975, pictured in 2009
Her best-known dance-theatre works include the melancholic Café Müller (1978), in which dancers stumble around the stage crashing into tables and chair. Bausch had most of the dancers perform this piece with their eyes closed. The thrilling Frühlingsopfer (The Rite of Spring) (1975) required the stage to be completely covered with soil.[8] She stated: "It is almost unimportant whether a work finds an understanding audience. One has to do it because one believes that it is the right thing to do. We are not only here to please, we cannot help challenging the spectator."
One of the themes in her work was relationships. She had a very specific process in which she went about creating emotions. "Improvisation and the memory of [the dancer's] own experiences ... she asks questions-about parents, childhood, feelings in specific situations, the use of objects, dislikes, injuries, aspirations. From the answers develop gestures, sentences, dialogues, little scenes". The dancer is free to choose any expressive mode, whether it is verbal or physical when answering these questions. It is with this freedom that the dancer feels secure in going deep within themselves. When talking about her process she stated, “There is no book. There is no set. There is no music. There is only life and us. It's absolutely frightening to do a work when you have nothing to hold on to”. She stated, “In the end, its composition. What you do with things. There's nothing there to start with. There are only answers: sentences, little scenes someone's shown you. It's all separate to start with. Then at a certain point I'll take something which I think is right and join it to something else. This with that, that with something else. One thing with various other things. And by the time I've found the next thing is right, then the little thing I had is already a lot bigger."
Male-female interaction is a theme found throughout her work, which has been an inspiration for—and reached a wider audience through—the movie Talk to Her, directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Her pieces are constructed of short units of dialogue and action, often of a surreal nature. Repetition is an important structuring device. She stated: “Repetition is not repetition,... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end” Her large multi-media productions often involve elaborate sets and eclectic music. In Vollmond, half of the stage is taken up by a giant, rocky hill, and the score includes everything from Portuguese music to k.d. lang.[9]
In 1983, she played the role of La Principessa Lherimia in Federico Fellini's film And the Ship Sails On.[10] The Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch made its American debut in Los Angeles as the opening performance of the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival.
In 2009, Bausch started to collaborate with film director Wim Wenders on a 3D documentary, Pina. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011.
Pina Bausch’s “Kontakthof” is a potent mix of drama and movement. A new incarnation, “Kontakthof — Echoes of ’78,” incorporates the original production in part through archival recordings.Credit...Ksenia Kuleshova for The New York Times
“There was always the understanding that we were not going to compete with our younger selves who are there on the film,” said John Giffin, one of nine original dancers in the new cast.Credit...Ksenia Kuleshova for The New York
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