Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Palermo Palermo
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The godmother of European dance theatre tears down polite society – and the walls come crashing down.
A wall falls.
From the rubble and dust emerges 22 performers, as though nothing has happened. They move through the wreckage – running, stumbling, embracing. Somewhere in the city, a party begins. Then something darker takes hold.
Choreographed by legendary dancer Pina Bausch, Palermo Palermo is a stark portrait of a city, but it is also of its people. Nearly 40 years since its 1989 premiere, Bausch builds a world on the brink of collapse in fragments: a sudden movement, a quiet pause, a shocking contradiction.
Without a single plot, vignettes of daily rituals and mundane encounters capture an atmosphere of destruction and the uncertainty that follows.
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The brilliant German choreographer and her twenty-two performers portray, through a series of vignettes, an unsettling world weighed down by religion and tradition
LA TERRASSE
a web of relationships and movements that is both precise and erratic
CLASSYKEO
Did you know
Palermo Palermo was the first piece ever created by Pina Bausch outside of her native Germany, following a three-week residency in Palermo, Sicily. The production came to be after the mayor, Leoluca Orlando, invited Bausch to visit and create a piece inspired by the titular city.
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