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.
Retrospective of the Art of Mark Sieczkarek
PATHS THROUGH MY GARDEN
This retrospective came to an end last weekend with the presentation of the film STREETWEAR
thoughts by Klaus Dilger
„Art is timeless, if it is to be art at all – and yet the processes of production impose a sense of […]
A Question of Casting and Restaging Café Müller is one of the very few works in which Pina Bausch herself continued to dance, even after taking over the company that would later bear her name in 1973. Since her death in 2009, every revival of the piece has been haunted by one essential question: how to embody her presence in her absence? And, inevitably, by the quality of the casting – as again for this opening of Tanztheater Wuppertal’s new season. But there is far more at stake.
“The Silent Waltz of Shadows” in Wuppertal
A House of Mirrors and Multiplicity
Francesco Vecchione’s The Silent Waltz of Shadows opens itself to an invited, participating audience at the INSEL in Wuppertal
by Klaus Dilger
There is […]
WOLVES AT DAWN by Julio Cesar Iglesias Ungo
Expulsion from Paradise…?
World Premiere on 5 July 2025 at the Alte Schauspielhaus Wuppertal – Pina Bausch Zentrum (under construction)
→ Watch our video impressions
Seen by Klaus Dilger
Are they fallen […]
REQUIEM FOR A FOREST
ART THAT SHAKES AND MOVES
– AND YET INSPIRES HOPE
Since 27 June and until 5 July, the Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal presents the installation REQUIEM FOR A FOREST by choreographer and filmmaker Nathalie Larquet.
The exhibition space […]
REQUIEM FOR A FOREST
UN ART DU MOUVEMENT QUI ÉBRANLE, ÉMEUT…
…et pourtant donne de l’espoir – Depuis le 27 juin et jusqu’au 5 juillet, le Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal présente dans ses espaces l’installation de la chorégraphe et réalisatrice Nathalie Larquet, intitulée REQUIEM FOR A […]
Impressions EXPOSURE
OVERWHELMED WORLD
Urban Arts Ensemble performs in Wuppertal at the Altes Schauspielhaus
by Klaus Dilger
The Urban Arts Ensemble Ruhr, together with the Compagnie Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, focus on overwhelming in the choreography by Julio César Iglesias Ungo and Hans van den Broeck. Ben Frost’s composition and live music provide the […]
„20 Dancers for the XX. Century and even more“ THE IDEA OF THE ASSERTION... OR THE ASSERTION OF THE IDEA Wuppertal Opera House was to become a temporary "Musée de la Danse" - a dance museum - for three days Klaus Dilger saw it for TANZweb.org. Here is his opinion.
Cildren- and Youth at schrit_tmacher justdance!
Impressions „LOEV“ Danstheater AYA
It’s 1 pm in Kerkrade Theatre and it’s really loud. …
Observations by Natalie Broschat
Around 300 schoolchildren have come to watch ‘LOEV’ by Danstheater AYA. The Dutch group led by choreographer Ryan Djojokarso, who is interested in interpersonal relationships and has already explored […]
Wir sprechen mit Rick Takvorian über sein rückblickendes Fazit zur 29.Ausgabe, über Dinge die gut gelaufen sind, Publikumsreaktionen, Marketing seitens der Stadt Aachen, über Dinge die besser laufen können und über die nahe Zukunft des Festivals…