Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Bluebeard/While Listening to a Tape Recording of Bela Bartok’s Opera “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle”

Pina Bausch is one of the most significant choreographers of the 21st century. After setting up her company in 1973, she created 42 pieces in a career spanning 36 years before her untimely death in 2009. She left behind a peerless legacy of having popularised a renewed brand of dance theatre around the world, continuing to inspire choreographers in every discipline of dance.

UK Premiere. In its UK premiere, the early monumental masterpiece from the dance theatre visionary is staged for the first time in over 25 years. Originally created in 1977, the new restaging is led by rehearsal directors Helena Pikon and Barbara Kaufmann and original cast members Jan Minarik and Beatrice Libonati. The stage, littered with leaves, is occupied by a man compulsively playing and replaying passages of B