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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”. Now French choreographer and outstanding dancer Boris Charmatz, artistic director of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch + Terrain Boris Charmatz – on stage himself in Vienna – merges Bausch’s iconic piece with two of his own early works from 1996 and 1997 to create CLUB AMOUR. Café Müller / Aatt enen tionon / herses. Everything revolves around love and desire in these three works that haven’t aged a bit: Purcell meets PJ Harvey, the subtle humour of Pina Bausch, her uniqueness and quiet radicalism, meet the unbridled nature of Charmatz’s Aatt enen tionon and the sensuality of naked, entwined bodies in herses (une lente introduction). A grand evening, an event.
In addition to the three-part evening, Café Müller can also be visited as an individual performance on 10, 12 and 13 July at 21:00.
Café Müller
Direction and Choreography: Pina Bausch
Set Design and Costumes: Rolf Borzik
Collaboration: Marion Cito, Hans Pop
Music: Henry Purcell
Rehearsal Direction Restaging: Barbara Kaufmann
With: Dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal
Aatt enen tionon
Choreography: Boris Charmatz
With: Dean Biosca, Eli Cohen*, Letizia Galloni*, Simon Le Borgne*, Christopher Tandy, Frank Willens (*as guest)
Lights: Yves Godin
Vertical Structure: Gilles Touyard
Sound: Hubertus Biermann, Olivier Renouf
Sound material: PJ Harvey
Collaboration to transmission: Julia Cima
Assistant: Çağdaş Ermiş
Technical Direction: Jörg Ramershoven
Thanks to Mathieu Burner, Némo Flouret, Lenio Kaklea, Fabrice Le Fur, Ana MacRae, Fabrice Ramalingom, Azusa Seyama-Prioville
herses, duo
Choreography: Boris Charmatz
excerpt from herses (une lente introduction)
With: Boris Charmatz, Johanna-Elisa Lemke
Music: Stefan Fraunberger
Production and distribution: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch + Terrain Boris Charmatz
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and Terrain develop together an artistic project between Germany and France under the direction of Boris Charmatz. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch is supported by the Wuppertal Stadt and Nordrhein-Westfalen Land. Terrain is supported by Ministère de la Culture – DRAC Hauts-de-France, and Région Hauts-de-France.
Production Aatt enen tionon: Association edna (1996)
Coproduction: La Halle aux Grains-Scène nationale de Marne-la-Vallée, La Ferme du Buisson-Scène nationale de Marne-la-Vallée, La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, Les Hivernales-Avignon. Residence Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Compté, Belfort (Management: Odile Duboc).
Production: herses (une lente introduction)
Association edna (1997)
Coproduction: Le Quartz / Centre National Dramatique et Chorégraphique de Brest (Kreation-Residence), Festival d’Automne à Paris, Centre chorégraphique National de Grenoble, Festival International Montpellier Danse, Dieppe Scène Nationale.
With the support of Springdance Utrecht, Niederlande, Centre national de la danse, Pantin.