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What Are Pina Bausch and Her Dancers Doing in Wuppertal? (1983)

ALL 02/25/1983 (de) Documentary 115 Min
  • Release
    02/25/1983
  • Production
    NDR, WDR
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    Was tun Pina Bausch und ihre Tänzer in Wuppertal?
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

Wuppertal is a drizzly, industrial city on the Rhine and one immediately wonders why Pina Bausch and her avant-garde dance troupe have settled there. A socially engaged documentarian, Wildenhahn is also perplexed by this issue and spends considerable time trying to place Bausch in a context outside of the aesthetic. Still, the dance company's daily life and the excruciating rehearsal and performance schedule is solidly captured. The film begins cleverly: a dance critic offers sagacious comments on ballet dancers finishing their careers at mid-thirty just when, according to Bausch, the "aspects of misery, suffering and fear of death should become an integral part of a dancer's spiritual and psychological make-up." Wildenhahn's camera glides over the dancers' bodies as Bausch leads them through their paces, a consummate teacher. Leaving behind rehearsals of "Bandoneón" and "Walzer," Wildenhahn then ventures out into the streets of Wuppertal searching for the dance of the common people.

  1. Klaus Wildenhahn

    Director

  2. Story



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What Are Pina Bausch and Her Dancers Doing in Wuppertal? (1983) 115 Min

ALL 02/25/1983 (de)
Documentary
  • Release 02/25/1983
  • Production
    NDR, WDR
  • Original title Was tun Pina Bausch und ihre Tänzer in Wuppertal?
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Wuppertal is a drizzly, industrial city on the Rhine and one immediately wonders why Pina Bausch and her avant-garde dance troupe have settled there. A socially engaged documentarian, Wildenhahn is also perplexed by this issue and spends considerable time trying to place Bausch in a context outside of the aesthetic. Still, the dance company's daily life and the excruciating rehearsal and performance schedule is solidly captured. The film begins cleverly: a dance critic offers sagacious comments on ballet dancers finishing their careers at mid-thirty just when, according to Bausch, the "aspects of misery, suffering and fear of death should become an integral part of a dancer's spiritual and psychological make-up." Wildenhahn's camera glides over the dancers' bodies as Bausch leads them through their paces, a consummate teacher. Leaving behind rehearsals of "Bandoneón" and "Walzer," Wildenhahn then ventures out into the streets of Wuppertal searching for the dance of the common people.

  1. Klaus Wildenhahn

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Petra Arciszewski

    Editor

  4. Rainer Hagen, Christhart Burgmann

    Producer



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