Apr 23May 07, 2024
Pina Bausch
TANZTHEATER WUPPERTAL+TERRAIN • ´Sweet Mambo`
AN ALMANAC OF THE HU-WOMAN BEING AND THE HU-MAN BEING, NOW MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER AS PINA BAUSCH CASTS AN AMUSED EYE OVER OUR LONELINESS WITH ALL HER POETIC FORCE.
In ‘Sweet Mambo’ six women are running the show. They are elegant and sensual, and reveal their inner torment and hope, their feelings of desire, fury and disappointment. Surely a woman feels lonely after so many missed opportunities and encounters. The second-last work by Pina Bausch, with three men presenting facts, shows how a woman sees personal relationships, seduction and desire, in a highly philosophical treatise on the obsessive quest for happiness that is both comic and tragic. Ranging from sensitivity to laughter and sincerity, with lucid awareness of our fragility, Pina Bausch presents a delightful portrayal of our illusions and of our need for others.
Mise en scène & chorégraphie Pina Bausch
Direction & choreography Pina Bausch Sets & video Peter Pabst Costumes Marion Cito
Musical collaboration Matthias Burkert, Andreas Eisenschneider Collaboration Marion Cito, Thusnelda Mercy, Robert Sturm Set assistant Gerburg Stoffel Costume assistant Svea Kossak Artistic direction of revival Alan Lucien Øyen Rehearsal directors Azusa Seyama, Robert Sturm Music Barry Adamson, Trygve Seim, Gustavo Santaolalla, Hope Sandoval, Portishead, Lucky Pierre Hazmat Modine, Jun Miyake, Mecca Bodega, Cluster & Eno, Lisa Ekdahl, Mari Boine, René Aubry, Mina Agossi, Ian Simmonds
With Andrey Berezin, Naomi Brito, Daphnis Kokkinos, Nazareth Panadero, Michael Strecker, Héléna Pikon, Julie Shanahan, Julie Anne Stanzak, Aida Vainieri (* guest artists)
Artistic direction Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch+[terrain] Boris Charmatz
Excerpt from the film Der Blaufuchs (The Blue Fox), 1938, UFA /
Stage direction: Viktor Tourjansky Script: Dr. K.B. Külb, was kindly made available by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Stiftung, Wiesbaden.
Premiere May 30, 2008 at the Schauspielhaus, Wuppertal.
Performance rights: Verlag der Autoren, representing the Pina Bausch Foundation
Tue 23 Apr 2024
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