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.
„Sweet Mambo“ performed again
Please do not forget…
„Sweet Mambo“ is great cinema, tender, humorous, melancholic, sometimes brutal and dramatic… a farewell –
HIER geht es zu unseren Videoimpressionen
review by Klaus Dilger
translated by Karoline Strys
During the rehearsals for […]
Second premiere at Tanztheater Wuppertal
Orpheus and Eurydice – A remarkable dance evening
At Wuppertaler Opernhaus the re-staging with new cast is deeply moving
by Klaus Dilger
translated by Karoline Strys
It is a remarkable evening of dance and this in many respects – having had its premiere as a new production (we reviewed) on […]
Daring the awakening… but with whom and whereto?
For the third time within five years, the advisory board nominates a new artistic director for Tanztheater Wuppertal… that is still bearing the name “Pina Bausch“.
op-ed article by Klaus Dilger
translated by Karoline Strys
If this news […]
“Bake cookies, bake cookies, … otherwise we are lost!“
On the virtual festival “Pina Bausch Center – under construction“
Online from November 21 till 29 and partially as a projection on Altes Schauspielhaus Wuppertal an der Kluse
Klaus Dilger
translated by Karoline Strys
„Innovative, creative and experimental – (…) that is how fortune cookies are […]
A GALA evening event of modesty, deliberate moments and appropriateness
Brief (nightly) observations and thoughts about this year’s virtual BAM-GALA that was broadcast last night from New York.
by Klaus Dilger
translated by Karoline Strys
None of what we would expect from any award ceremony in the US appeared last night, even though Cate […]
Dancescreen 2019 + TANZRAUSCHEN Festival Wuppertal
Gala Moody & Michael Carter
„New people“
by Annelie Andre
They’ve built a golden tent. We can all meet there and have a common experience. It is a place that protects us from the world out there, it´s warm and cosy. It even […]
©Francesco Carbone _ photo taken from the poster of Opéra Garnier
The world commemorates Pina Bausch
especially in France and Italy
she wanted to find a language for life and […]
PINA BAUSCH AND TANZTHEATER WUPPERTAL
beyond the present moment
a call to objectivity by Klaus Dilger
translation by Karoline Strys
“Almost the entire dance world got behind Binder in this conflict…“, claimed Berliner Zeitung on the day of the double bill evening and reenactment “Café Müller | Das Frühlingsopfer“ and, after the termination of […]
VOLLMOND – Wiederaufnahme im Opernhaus Wuppertal
Bilder von der Nacht
Man muss nicht dabei gewesen sein, um sicher zu wissen, dass das Publikum diese Premiere der Wiederaufnahme aus dem Jahr 2006, einem der späten Hauptwerke von Pina Bausch, mit „Standing Ovations“ gefeiert hat. Pina Bausch’s Werk lebt und das ihrer künstlerischen Wegbegleiter […]
Be afraid!
Pina Bausch‘s Tanztheater Wuppertal is reenacting „Die sieben Todsünden“ – a Brecht-Weill dance evening of 1976. But, does it also have seven lives?
review by Melanie Suchy | translated by Karoline Strys
watch our video-impressions HERE PART II and HERE PART !
For almost […]