Reviews
Here you will find night critiques and reviews, which we usually accompany and supplement with dance photography and dance films of the performances to offer an additional, independent and hopefully artistic view of the choreographic events.
Am 18.Juli erhält Trajal Harrell den Silbernen Löwen bei der Biennale Danza di Venezia. Wir haben den Künstler im Ludwig Forum Aachen getroffen, dessen Leiterin Eva Birkenstock seine Arbeit SISTER OR HE BURRIED THE BODY co-produziert und im Rahmen des schrit_tmacher festivals 2023 vier mal präsentiert hatte. Natalie Broschat hat mit ihm gesprochen...
...The only people who perhaps wanted to be a couple in Bausch’s VIKTOR are already lying dead on the stage and are married right at the beginning of the play (and again in a repeat at the very end) by a magistrate or chaplain, post mortem so to speak, after Julie Shanahan, armless like a dressmaker’s dummy, has silently dribbled an elegant red dress onto the stage ramp in the first image....
Restaging of VIKTOR – dance piece by Pina Bausch
“Death is omnipresent…”
On 26 June, the revival of Pina Bausch’s 1986 piece, which was last shown in 2017, celebrated its premiere with a new cast and Breanna O’Mara and Scott Jennings as guests, who had a […]
How do You want to be remembered…?
… on the occasion of the film review of “ROMANCE” by Samantha Shay, which will be shown at the moovy-festival in Cologne on 17 March.
a short commentary by Klaus Dilger
The fiftieth season of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch has long since reached its midpoint.This […]
Dance of agony
Overpretentious and underperforming: Samantha Shay’s dance film “Romance” can’t decide whether it wants to be fiction or documentary. The result is sobering.
By: Harff-Peter Schönherr
Anyone who makes a film out of literature has to hope that the cinema-goer doesn’t know the […]
Reenactment of Pina Bausch’s NELKEN
The live of the others…
Night review by Klaus Dilger
HERE you can find our video impressions
A sparsely lit field of thousands of carnations, as an entrance atmosphere on the open stage of the Wuppertal Opera House. The ideal backdrop, it seems, for many a […]
Our video impressions
What remains…
… from “Café Müller” as part of the Club Amour evening by Boris Charmatz
by Klaus Dilger
Melanie Suchy reviewed the evening for us and comes to the questioning conclusion: “Maybe it’s time to close the café”. Therefore, in […]
