"... The last show in the sequence was created with Central Europe, specifically Hungary, in mind. Wiesenland (meaning something like 'state of meadows': the French, by whom Bausch is much treasured, translate it as 'terre verte', green earth), is on balance one of the tenderest and now a personal favourite of mine; but that’s to state only a position of subjectivity. Bausch is all about personal favourites. ... If there’s an overriding law to emerge from this global mishmash it is that Bausch archly defeats criticism. Against an enormous, vertical-standing backdrop of jungly vegetation, which leaks water, the ensemble enacts little dramas of desire and rejection. There are tropes of gypsy matrimony (the Romanian band Taraf de Haidouks, amongst others, are credited in the track listing), two wedding dresses tossed about in the air like ghostly shuttlecocks. Dancers, still smoking, are doused in water from buckets, perhaps in some ritual of barmy baptism - a return from striving adulthood to a cleansing innocence...?"
the arts desk
Laurent Paillier - Dance photographer
London Dance
PINA BAUSCH: LOCK, STOCK AND BARREL
YOUKU: Wiesenland
facebook: Diaporama Wiesenland
2008 May: Pina Bausch, 2009 June: Pina Bausch 1940-2009, 2012 August: Pina Bausch Costumes.
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