I grew up watching Lucky and Penny spin about the dance floor. I knew their every line, and, more importantly,...
In the programme notes for “…como el musguito en la piedra, ay si si si…” (“Like moss on a stone”),...
Pina Bausch’s penultimate work, “Sweet Mambo” premiered in 2008, following its counterpart “Bamboo Blues.” The two pieces were created in...
The question of new work has loomed large over Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch since its eminent founder passed away in...
Sambas, waterslides, live chickens on stage—nobody does dance theatre like Pina Bausch. The late choreographer’s Wuppertal-based company has just wrapped up a tour of “Masurca Fogo,” created during a three-week residency in Lisbon in 1998 as part of her World Cities series, a collection inspired by the cultures of various urban locales, from Rome to Budapest to Los Angeles.
When Pina Bausch embarked on her World Cities series in the ’80s, striking up temporary residencies in locales as far-flung...
