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

What Are Pina Bausch and Her Dancers Doing in Wuppertal?

1983

1h 55m

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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.

Status: Released

Language: DE

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Production Information

Production Companies

NDR WDR

Production Countries

Germany

Spoken Languages

German

Quick Facts

Original Title	Was tun Pina Bausch und ihre Tänzer in Wuppertal?
Release Date	February 25, 1983
Status	Released
Language	DE
IMDb ID	tt0289614

Cast

Pina Bausch

Herself

Key Crew

Klaus Wildenhahn

Writer

Christhart Burgmann

Producer

Klaus Wildenhahn

Director

Rainer Hagen

Producer

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