First Night: Flesh might sag and wrinkle, but the child within lives forever

From: The Independent - London | Date: November 29, 2002| Author: Nadine Meisner | Copyright information

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

Barbican Theatre, London

PREDICTABLY PINA Bausch's three performances have long been sold out, even though it's not her Tanztheater Wuppertal company proper, more a Tanztheater Wuppertal 2. She doesn't need massive marketing; she elicits fierce, lifelong loyalty from her fans, so that many spectators this time round are doubtless the same as those in 1982 when she first brought her company to London.

One of the two pieces she showed was...