In Search of Dance & Dancing Dreams

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In Search of Dance
Pina Bausch's Other Dance Theatre
Director:Patricia Corboud, Germany, 1991, documentary, 29 min.
French

When Pina Bausch received an engagement as ballet director of the Wuppertal stage in 1973, hardly anyone knew her. Today, she is considered the mother of dance theater, precisely of any art form that combines all genres of the performing arts in one.

The multi-award-winning Wuppertal Dance Theater can look back on countless foreign tours worldwide. Despite all her successes, Pina Bausch remained loyal to the city of Wuppertal and her company until her death.

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Dancing Dreams - Teenagers perform Kontakthof by Pina Bausch
Director: Anne Linsel, Germany, 2010, documentary, 89 min.
German with Frenche subtitles

The dance performance Kontakthof bears the unmistakable signature of Pina Bausch: it deals with forms of human contacts, encounters between the sexes, and the search for love and tenderness, with all its attendant anxieties, yearnings and doubts. It is a dance about feelings, which pose a big challenge – particularly for young people.

Teenagers from more than eleven schools in Wuppertal went on an emotional journey that lasted almost a year. Every Saturday, forty students aged between fourteen and eighteen years of age took part in rehearsals that were led by Bausch-dancers Jo-Ann Endicott and Bénédicte Billiet and intensely supervised by Pina Bausch herself.