Pina Bausch

Dancing Pina (2023)

Two of Pina Bausch's most famous works are rehearsed in Germany and Senegal, championing the choreographer's legacy through a younger generation of dancers. ...

Dancing at Dusk – A moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring (2020)

Pina Bausch's iconic choreography to The Rite of Spring danced on the beach in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal. Filmed as the world descended into lockdown, this recording captures the last rehearsal of a specially assembled company of 38 dancers from 14 African co ...

Vollmond - Ein Stück von Pina Bausch (2014)

Complete recording of Pina Bausch's piece Vollmond (Full Moon) by Wim Wenders. ...

Kontakthof - Ein Stück von Pina Bausch (2014)

In many ways, "Kontakthof" could be seen as the sum of Pina Bausch's choreographies: the performance takes place at a single location. The high room is completely empty and open to the public - like a showcase. The other three sides are furnished with long ...

Orpheus and Eurydice (2008)

The Ballet de l'Opera National de Paris mounted this production of the late Pina Bausch's dance-opera Orpheus und Eurydike, which Bausch had adapted from composer Christoph Willibald-Gluck and Ranieri de' Calzabigi's 1762 opera Orfeo ed Euridice. As the ti ...

Talk to Her (2002)

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas. ...

The Complaint of an Empress (1990)

This first film by choreographer Pina Bausch reflects her method of working as developed with the Wuppertal Theatre of Dance during the 1973/74 season. The film does not tell a story, but is made up of various scenes put together as a collage with scenes s ...

Palermo Palermo - Ein Stück von Pina Bausch (1989)

As debut of the film series, video footage of the piece Palermo Palermo, which was taken shortly after the piece's premiere in 1989, has been digitally restored. Thanks to a grant from the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Cultural Foundati ...

AHNEN ahnen (1987)

While Pina Bausch was preparing her film The Plaint of the Empress in 1987, the French, British and German co-producers were waiting for a script. No script: no film. That is how the film industry saw things.The discussions dragged on but eventually the TV ...

Walzer (1986)

Walzer is an excerpt taken from a work by the same name. Pina Bausch premiered it in the summer of 1982 at the Carré Theatre in Amsterdam and filmed it in the autumn of the same year in the theatre of Wuppertal. When in 1986 the German radio station Nordd ...

Café Müller (1985)

Pina Bausch created and performed Café Müller for her dance company Tanztheater Wuppertal. The dance was inspired by and based on her childhood memories of watching her father work at his café in Germany during and immediately following World War II. In ...

The Rite of Spring (1978)

...Dancing to the border of exhaustion. Dressed in little, the black earth sticks to their skin. Yes, to the point where it hurts. A document of early Pina Bausch, an authentic recording of one of the most outstanding choreographies of the 20th century. ...

Pina Bausch a Roma (2017)

Pina (2011)

Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009. ...

Dancing Dreams (2010)

The dance performance "Kontakthof" bears the unmistakable signature of Pina Bausch: it deals with forms of human contact, encounters between the sexes, and the search for love and tenderness, with all its attendant anxieties, yearnings and doubts. It is a ...

Pina Bausch (2006)

Documentary about German choreographer Pina Bausch. ...

Talk to Her (2002)

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas. ...

One Day Pina Asked... (1989)

Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on tour in Germany, Italy and France. Her objective was to capture Pina Bausch's unparalleled art not only on sta ...

Café Müller (1985)

Pina Bausch created and performed Café Müller for her dance company Tanztheater Wuppertal. The dance was inspired by and based on her childhood memories of watching her father work at his café in Germany during and immediately following World War II. In ...

And the Ship Sails On (1983)

In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and c ...

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

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 ...

Dress Rehearsal (1980)

An exhilarating, essayistic documentary about the 1980 festival of experimental theatre in the French city of Nancy. Werner Schroeter's favourite of his own films. ...