Nefés - Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
In Nefés (Turkish for "breath"), the incomparable doyenne of dance-theatre choreographs a series of vivid and voluptuous tableaux inspired by the East-West exoticism of Istanbul.
Gorgeous dancers in elegant gowns and sharp suits create riveting dance and seductive images set to a crazy-quilt score which includes tangos, traditional Turkish music, Tom Waits, and electronic pop. Nefés is astonishingly beautiful, a valentine to a "city of water" in which every element — music, movement, colour, light —generates pure pleasure.
"Ms. Bausch’s sly humor and audacious visual imagination are in full play … there is no one quite like Ms. Bausch and no journey quite like the gradual one she has made to this point, in a work that is as quietly provocative as it is sneakily evocative."
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times, December 11, 2006
Nefés was presented at the National Arts Center in Ottawa from November 23 to 25, 2007.
