Love in dark times. Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost was the subtitle of Wim Wenders’ 3D film Pina. In his tribute, the director integrated spectacular scenes from Pina Bausch’s piece Vollmond, which premiered in 2006, three years before the exceptional choreographer’s death, at her place of living and working in Wuppertal. Vollmond is part of a series of so-called ‘night pieces’ by the founder and prime mover of German dance theatre: twelve dancers engage in the intricacies of romantic entanglements in constant rain on a moonlit stage in front of a massive rock.
Dramaturgy & Choreography: Pina Bausch
Stage: Peter Pabst
Costume: Marion Cito
Musical collaboration: Matthias Burkert, Andreas Eisenschneider
Contribution: Marion Cito, Daphnis Kokkinos, Robert Sturm
Music: Amon Tobin, René Aubry, Nenad Jelic, Magyar Posse, Leftfield, Jun Miyake, Cat Power, The Alexander Balanescu Quartett, Tom Waits amongst others
Rehearsal Directors: Daphnis Kokkinos, Robert Sturm
With: Dean Biosca, Naomi Brito, Silvia Farias Heredia, Ditta Miranda Jasjfi, Alexander López Guerra, Nicholas Losada, Héléna Pikon, Azusa Seyama, Ekaterina Shushakova, Julie Anne Stanzak, Michael Strecker/Reginald Lefevbre, Christopher Tandy
