“…como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si …” | © Zerrin Aydin-Herwegh
Wiesenland | © Jochen Viehoff
Blaubart | © Ulli Weiss, Pina Bausch Foundation
Die sieben Todsünden | © Bettina Stöß
Vollmond | © Milan Nowoitnick Kampfer
Seit sie | © Julian Mommert
Nelken | © Jochen Viehoff
Palermo Palermo | © Evangelos Rodoulis
The ensemble is highly international, with 32 members from a range of 17 different cultures and generations, including dancers from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Greece, the UK, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Peru, Russia, Spain, South Korea, the USA, Taiwan, and Germany.
By the time of her death, in 2009, Pina Bausch had created a total of 46 works; the majority of them are in the Tanztheater Wuppertal’s repertoire. With its innumerable guest performances on various continents this ensemble is regarded as an important cultural ambassador for the dance world of North Rhine-Westphalia and beyond.
Founder Pina Bausch
General and Artistic Director Boris Charmatz
General and Managing Director Roger Christmann
History of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
Pina Bausch wrote dance history. She not only founded the world-famous company in Wuppertal, she shaped a whole genre – dance theatre – and influenced countless other artists, choreographers and directors worldwide who credit her and her work. For this she received a great many prizes, such as the German Dance Prize, Venice’s Golden Lion and the Kyoto Prize. When she first arrived in Wuppertal in 1973, no-one guessed she would reinvent modern dance there. The young dancer and choreographer (1940-2009) took over the ballet company at the Wuppertaler Bühnen (the combined municipal theatres) and soon renamed it the Tanztheater Wuppertal (‘Wuppertal dance theatre’), because that was her goal: to unite dance and theatre.
See full history.
Boris Charmatz is a dancer, choreographer and creator of experimental projects such as the ephemeral school Bocal, the Musée de la danse and [terrain], an institution without roof and walls. He subjects dance to formal constraints which redraw the field of its possibilities. For him, the stage is a notepad on which to draft concentrated, organic concepts in order to observe the chemical reactions, intensities and tensions engendered by their encounters.
In September 2022, Boris Charmatz becomes the new director of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and launches, together with [terrain], a new project between France and Germany.
See full biography.
Productions from the 2022/2023 season
Água
A Piece by Pina Bausch
Creation 12.05.2001
Duration 2 h 50 with intermission
Kontakthof
A Piece by Pina Bausch
Creation 09.12.1978
Duration 2 h 50 with intermission
Vollmond (Full Moon)
A Piece by Pina Bausch
Creation 11.05.2006
Duration 2 h 20 with intermission
Café Müller
A Piece by Pina Bausch
Creation 20.05.1978
Duration 40’
Das Stück mit dem Schiff (The Piece with the Ship)
A Piece by Pina Bausch
Creation 16.01.1993
Duration 2 h 45 with intermission
Blaubart. Beim Anhören einer Tonbandaufnahme von Béla Bartóks Oper „Herzog Blaubarts Burg“ (Bluebeard. While Listening to a Tape Recording of Béla Bartóks opera “Duke Bluebeard`s Castle”
Creation 08.01.1977
Duration 1 h 50
Palermo Palermo
A Piece by Pina Bausch
Creation 17.12.1989
Duration 2 h 35 with intermission
Sea Change
Concept Boris Charmatz
Creation 21.05.2023
Duration tbc
Productions from the 2021/2022 season
Wiesenland
A Piece by Pina Bausch
In Koproduction with the Goethe Institut Budapest and Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
Premiere 5. May 2000
Duration 145` intermission included
Vollmond (Full Moon)
A Piece by Pina Bausch
Premiere 11. Mai 2006
Duration 140` intermission included
Kontakthof
A Piece by Pina Bausch
Premiere 9. December 1978
Duration 170` intermission included
Palermo Palermo
A Piece by Pina Bausch
In coproduction with Teatro Biondo Stabile, Palermo and Andres Neumann International
Premiere
Premiere 17. December 1989
Duration 155` intermission included
Das Stück mit dem Schiff (The Piece with the Ship)
A Piece by Pina Bausch
Premiere 16. January 1993
Duration 165` intermission included
Schlafende Frau (Sleeping Woman)
By Rainer Behr
Premiere 20.01.2022
Duration 150` intermission included
Orpheus und Eurydike
Dance-opera by Pina Bausch
Music by Christoph W. Gluck
Premiere 23. May 1975
Duration 135` intermission included
´Sweet Mambo`
A Piece by Pina Bausch
Premiere 30. May 2008
Duration 130` intermission included
Bluebeard. While Listening to a Tape Recording of Béla Bartók`s opera “Duke Bluebeard`s Castle”
A Piece by Pina Bausch
Premiere 30. December 1977
Duration 110` no intermission
Productions from the 2020/2021 season
He Takes Her By The Hand And Leads Her Into The Castle, The Others Follow
A Piece by Pina Bausch
Premiere 22. April 1978
Duration 180` intermission included
Das Stück mit dem Schiff (The Piece with the Ship)
A Piece by Pina Bausch
Premiere 16. January 1993
Duration 165` intermission inluded
Ectopia
By Richard Siegal
Performed with Shooting into the Corner (2008-2009) by Anish Kapoor and a commissioned composition by Alva Noto
Premiere 6. November 2021
Duration 80` intermission included
Productions of Season 2019/2020
„...como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si...“
A piece by Pina Bausch
2h35 incl. one intermission
„Wiesenland“
A piece by Pina Bausch
2h25 incl. one intermission
Bluebeard. While Listening to a Tape Recording of Béla Bartók´s Opera „Duke Bluebeards Castle“
A piece by Pina Bausch
1h50, no intermission
Die sieben Todsünden
Dance evening by Pina Bausch
2h25, incl. one intermission
Begegnungen/Encounters
With creations by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Richard Siegal, Monika Gintersdorfer/Knut Klaßen, Helena Waldmann aund Rainer Behr
Duration tbc
Vollmond
Ein Stück von Pina Bausch
2h20 incl. one intermission
Seit sie / Since she
Choreography: Dimitris Papaioannou, in Coproduction with Théâtre de la Ville / La Villette, Paris; Sadler’s Wells, London; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Onassis Cultural Centre-Athens, Athen
1h, no intermission
Nelken / Carnations (1982)
A piece by Pina Bausch
1h50 no intermission
Palermo Palermo
A piece by Pina Bausch 2 h 35 incl. one intermission
Productions from the 2018/2019 season
Arien
A piece by Pina Bausch
125 min
Palermo Palermo
A piece by Pina Bausch
2 h 35
He Takes Her By The Hand And Leads Her Into The Castle, The Others Follow
A piece by Pina Bausch
3h
Vollmond (2006)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
140 min (incl. interval)
Masurca Fogo (1998)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
150 min
Café Müller (1978) / Das Frühlingsopfer (1975)
Choreography: Pina Bausch; music: Henry Purcell; Symphony Orchestra Wuppertal under the directino of Henrik Schaefer; Sopran Marie Heeschen, Bass Lukas Jakobski; 105 min. (incl. interval)
Nefés (2003)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
170 min (incl. interval)
New Piece I -Seit sie
Choreography: Dimitris Papaioannou, in co-production with Théâtre de la Ville / La Villette, Paris; Sadler’s Wells, London; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Onassis Cultural Centre-Athens, Athen
1980 (1980)
Choreography: Pina Bausch, music: John Dowland Comedian Harmonists Benny Goodman Francis Lai Edward Elgar Johannes Brahms Claude Debussy Ludwig van Beethoven John Wilson u. a., Dauer: 210 min, (incl. interval)
New Piece II - a creation by Alan Lucien Øyen
Choreography: Alan Lucien Øyen, in co-production with Théâtre de la Ville-Paris / Chaillot-Théâtre national de la Danse, Paris; Sadler’s Wells, London; Norwegian National Ballet, Oslo, 210 min. (incl. interval)
Productions from the 2016/2017 season
Nefés (2003)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
170 min (inkl. Pause)
Palermo Palermo (1989)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
155 min (inkl. Pause)
Vollmond (2006)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
140 min (inkl. Pause)
Viktor (1986)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
195 min (inkl. Pause)
Masurca Fogo (1998)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
150 min
Café Müller (1978) / Das Frühlingsopfer (1975)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
105 min (inkl. Pause)
Nelken (1982)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
110 min (wihtout Pause)
´Sweet Mambo` (2008)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
130 min (inkl. Pause)
Arien (1979)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
125 min (keine Pause)
Ten Chi (2004)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
170 min (inkl. Pause)
Productions from the 2014/2015 season
...como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si ... (2009)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
140 min
´Sweet Mambo`(2008)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
110 min
Vollmond (2006)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
120 min
Für die Kinder von gestern, heute und morgen (2002)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
150 min
Masurca Fogo (1998)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
130 min
Danzón (1995)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
105 min
Palermo Palermo (1989)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
135 min
Ahnen (1987)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
155 min
Kontakthof (1987)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
150 min
Two Cigarettes in the Dark (1985)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
160 min
Auf dem Gebirge hat man ein Geschrei gehört (1984)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
music: Senioren-Blasorchester Wuppertal, 120 min
Nelken (1982)
Choreography: Pina Bausch
110 min
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