ImPulsTanz: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch + Terrain Boris Charmatz – Café Müller

Looking at recent dance history, only a handful of works are as legendary, as stylistically formative, as touching and as deeply engrained in the memory of every generation’s audiences as Pina Bausch’s Café Müller from 1978, having been performed around the world ever since. Inspired by Bausch’s memories of her father’s café, six dancers enchant and enrapture as they navigate the furnishings to music by Henry Purcell. That same year, the performance was filmed and shown on German television – a unique operation for a then-revolutionary “Tanztheater”. It is, among other things, Café Müller that launches Pina Bausch’s singular career, which, in 2011, Wim Wenders memorialised in his Oscar-nominated film Pina. But at least as beautiful and more topical now than ever is Heiner Müller’s description of the great choreographer in his legendary text for Pina Bausch: “That a sphinx is staring back when we look freedom in the face should not surprise us.”

Duration: 40 Min
Price: 8 / 14 / 18 / 23 / 36 / 50 / 62 Euro
Reduced: 6 / 11 / 15 / 19 / 30 / 42 / 52 Euro