The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Pina Bausch
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* Notes *The Bay Area premiere of Pina Bausch‘s The Rite of Spring was presented by Cal Performances last weekend at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley. It was performed with common ground[s], a duet between Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo. The duet, choreographed and performed by Acogny and Airaudo, was performed first. Both are septuagenarians. Acogny…
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* Notes * Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal returned to Brooklyn Academy of Music to present Bausch's last work "…como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si…" in a run of eight performances. I caught the last one on Saturday night. The piece is based on the company's experiences in Santiago, Chile and involves Bausch's…
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* Notes *The Paris Opera Ballet performed Pina Bausch‘s arresting choreography of Orpheus und Eurydike as part the Lincoln Center Festival yesterday evening. The set, designed by Rolf Borzik, is sober, offset by his simple, often translucent costumes. The dancing was gorgeous. The movements were fluid, and had a lovely natural quality to them. One…
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Fabio Luisi has been appointed the next general music director of Opernhaus Zürich, and starts in 2012. Lyndon Terracini is the next artistic director of Opera Australia, starting October 2009. In sadder news, the choreographer Philippine "Pina" Bausch died this morning. Luisi Press Release | Terracini Press Release [PDF] | Tanztheater Wuppertal
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* Notes * Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal returned to Cal Performances for the first time in 8 years, with a three day run of the piece Ten Chi. The work has quite a lot more dancing in it than Nelken, the only other work of Bausch's I know. It was a couple of strange Japanese/German dream-like…
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