Esplanade de la Place des Arts
150 people maximum. No reservation
Distancing of 2 meters and wearing of face-cover mandatory
Despite the cancellation due to the pandemic of Pina Bausch’s show
Nelken, the spirit of the great German choreographer will welcome and engage us. Danse Danse invites you to enter Pina's poetic universe through the
Nelken Line, a choreographic sequence evoking the changing of the seasons.
The public performance will be held outdoors on the Place des Arts Esplanade, presented by students from the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal and the École supérieure de ballet du Québec.
The "Nelken Line" Project
In 2017, in a bid to perpetuate the legacy of the founder of dance-theatre, the Pina Bausch Foundation launched the Nelken Line Project, which has since brought together thousands of dance lovers around the world. The concept is simple: through a tutorial, participants learn a movement sequence from Bausch’s iconic work Nelken, then gather to dance it together in a public space. The performance is filmed and the video is sent to the foundation, which archives and distributes it, creating a moving international community that collectively shares in dancing the profound humanity of Pina Bausch.
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Pina Bausch
Philippina Bausch (1940-2009), nicknamed Pina, was born in Solingen, a small city in the Ruhr valley. Her works cast the somber yet tender gaze that, since childhood, she has had of the world and the human condition. As a child she hid under the tables of her father’s restaurant, which inspired the set design for her emblematic pieces Café Müller, Kontakthof and Bandonéon. A legend of 20th century…
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