Pina Bausch’s ‘Adagio’, reconstructed only in 2024 having not been performed for 50 years, plus Hans van Manen’s ‘Variations for Two Couples’, Demis Volpi’s ‘The thing with feathers’, and Justin Peck’s title work
Continuing what seemed to be becoming a trend in Bausch’s work, it’s much more colourful and lighter in tone than many of her tanztheater creations
In April, the Bayerisches Staatsballett dance Pina Basuch’s Rite of Spring. Jeannette Andersen talks to former Bausch dancers about staging the work
The everyday is made ludicrous, and deeply expressive… The performers engage in games of unfathomable rules… Normal romantic emotions are exaggerated
The third year’s classical work was Les Patineurs (1937), and then Pina Bausch’s Tannhăuser Bacchanal (1972), a fascinating piece of dance history
The company are not content with being superb jugglers. There’s a lot of movement skills and comedic flair too
Often humorous, the dances border on grotesque, as if begging [us]… to acknowledge that the overwhelming sweetness can quickly turn into horror
A man of resilience, grace, generosity of spirit, and an acute observer of the complexities of the human condition, he passed away in 2021
It remains an unparalleled piece exploring relationships between the sexes…full of ideas and observations that have not lost their brilliance.
Despair, solitude and collective reminiscence
Includes a live streaming of The Piece with the Ship