Nelken di pina bausch biography

Poster for Nelken, 1982

They bloomed before you, these 8000 carnations. You are outnumbered by flowers. You do not know whether they celebrate or eulogize. How could you know, with only one line in the programme to guide you?

“For love is as strong as death, and its ardour terrible like hell.” You tiptoe in. The silence is the low sound of a heart on the speakers.

Nelken di pina bausch biography

Everyone is shy: it is no longer an evening in town.

Yet you have come to see it, this play between the mouth and the breath, between two and four lips. You have wanted to see Pina Bausch’s work for a long time.

You know she is without a doubt the greatest European choreographer of the second half of the twentieth century, that she shows bodies like no other, that, between theatre and dance, she has invented a form. Each element becomes a gesture: lashing, hair, cloth.

Tanzabend II, 1991

Early, the dancers prudently walk down the steps, and into the audience.

Each picks a spect