Dance: Event Of The Week - Pina Bausch

From: The Independent - London | Date: January 23, 1999| Author: Nadine Meisner | Copyright information

Pina Bausch from Wed

Sadler's Wells

For 25 years now, the choreographer Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal has been entrancing audiences the world over, but it has not been to London since 1982. Trained dancers who speak and act, Bausch's performers present sketches, games and sequences of beautiful movement, mixing genres on the principle that any medium is valid if it best serves the message. Old, youn...

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