Revisiting Pina Bausch’s World of Love and Longing in Aging Bodies
“Kontakthof,” a pivotal Bausch dance from 1978, is being staged with members of the original cast. They talk about coming back to it nearly 50 years later.
The New York Times
November 18, 2024
John Giffin
It was our first time working in the Lichtburg [in 1978], an old cinema that became our rehearsal studio, and the way it looked became almost the exact set of “Kontakthof,” with a screen at the back, black chairs, a piano. We worked on gestures of tenderness — the whole range — from adolescents coming together to something more adult and erotic, and past that to aggression.
