Originally premiered in 1978 and now returning to Sadler's Wells in its 44th anniversary year, Pina Bausch's Kontakthof evokes longing and misguided desires. The piece is brought to life by a group of mature dancers, playing out first encounters, courtship and uncertain romance. One of the most important pieces in Pina Bausch's repertoire. Overview of pieces and repertoire currently being performed by the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Terrain Boris Charmatz. Kontakthof. Kontakthof Kontakthof Kontakthof Kontakthof Kontak. Choreography / Direction. Pina Bausch. Set Design / Costumes. Rolf Borzik. Collaboration. Rolf Borzik Marion Cito Hans Pop. Music. Bertal-Maubon-Daniderff.
BAM blog Pina Bausch's Kontakthof—Innocence Regained
I t was 40 years ago that choreographer Pina Bausch first brought Kontakthof to London (it was made in 1978) and yet its subject matter hasn't aged a bit. Its themes centre on the endless. Judith Mackrell. K ontakthof, created back in 1978, is one of Pina Bausch's most minimalist productions. It is set in a drab municipal hall, and its choreography is limited to a palette of. Kontakthof, a performance by the German choreographer Pina Bausch (1940-2009), is a compelling visual enactment of this. Performances alternate two different casts: one comprising teenagers, the other men and women over the age of 65. Although the adolescent and senior dancers enact exactly the same choreographic sequence, each performance is. Philippine "Pina" Bausch (27 July 1940 - 30 June 2009) was a German dancer and choreographer who was a significant contributor to a neo-expressionist dance tradition now known as Tanztheater. Bausch's. "Kontakthof" is composed of Kontakt ("contact") and Hof ("court, courtyard"), resulting in "courtyard of contact," which is also a.
Pina Bausch’s ‘Kontakthof’ at Sadler’s Wells A timeless reflection on gender relationsReview
Members of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch performing the 1978 work "Kontakthof," set in a dance hall and infused with anxious hope and longing, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard. The battle of the sexes is fraught at the best of times - and no one had a keener sense of its absurdities and tragedies than Pina Bausch.Her work, from the seminal Café Müller to the mesmeric. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in Kontakthof, which still ranks as one of Bausch's finest full-length works. REINER PFISTERER. Friday February 04 2022, 12.00pm, The Times. Pina Bausch in "Kontakthof with Ladies and Gentlemen over '65'" (Book and DVD), L'Arche Editeur, Paris, 2007. Translation: Jo Ann Endicott. Kontakthof is a place where people meet who are searching for contact. To show yourself, to deny yourself. With fears. Desire. Disappointments. Despiration.
Pina Bausch Kontakthof ( > 65) TEATAR.HR
Jo Ann Endicott joined Pina Bausch in 1973 when the latter founded her Tanztheater Wuppertal company. Today Jo Ann is the artistic rehearsal director working with the company's dancers to bring Kontakthof into the Opera Ballet's repertoire.. She relates the work's creative process, in which she participated in 1978, and the multitude of contrasting feelings that form its subject. Filled with a brooding sense of the past, often specifically Germany's past, Bausch's works are less like ballets, more like choreographed group-psychotherapy. Dressed formally, as if for an evening out in the 1930s, her performers parade their secret frustrations and desires, blurt out verbal confessions or enact dreamlike scenarios, often involving sexual violence.
But Kontakthof holds out a promise that life and her captivatingly absurd and truthful work continues without her. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch perform Kontakthof at the Barbican Theatre until Sunday. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch performs the Brazil-inspired Agua in the Edinburgh Festival (27-29 August, Playhouse) The company's web site. A piece by Pina Bausch. View credits. Poster for "Kontakthof" by Pina Bausch. Information. Premiere: 12/09/1978 season 1978/79 Opernhaus Wuppertal. Duration: Direction and choreography: Pina Bausch: Collaboration: Rolf Borzik: Marion Cito: Hans Pop: Set and costume design:
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We saw Kontakthof, Bluebeard and 1980: three massive pieces. I've now been with the company for 26 years.. Pina Bausch at Sadler's Wells. Photograph: Tristram Kenton. The grass on the stage is. Pina Bausch (1940-2009) and her Tanztheater have a huge following: this short run of her 1978 Kontakthof sold out quickly, so I am surprised to see some empty seats (this is not press night) and even more after the interval.Granted the first ninety-minute half is relatively long, but this is Pina—at three hours in total, it is not the longest piece in her canon.
