Pina Bausch Company: ‘This Is Theater, and These Are Humans’

Pina Bausch in “Café Müller” in Lisbon, 2008.
"What does a dance company do when its sole choreographer and leader, a figure as charismatic and intense as Pina Bausch, dies, leaving her dancers without a clear path forward? This was the situation faced by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in the summer of 2009, when Bausch succumbed to cancer, just days after her diagnosis. The dancers, on tour in Poland, made the decision to perform that night, and the next, and then another week, another year. Eight years and three artistic directors later, they’re still at it. For the next two weeks, they will be at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, performing a double bill of archetypal Bausch’s works from the 1970s, 'Café Müller' (1978) and 'The Rite of Spring' (1975). These were included in the company’s first season at the Brooklyn Academy, their introduction to the New York audience, back in 1984. ..."
NY Times
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Sadler's Wells

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