20.08.2024

›Liberté Cathédrale‹ by Boris Charmatz ›Production of the year‹

First production as the new artistic director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – and a ›Production of the Year‹ straight away: In the annual survey for the 2023/24 season, just published in tanz magazine’s ›Jahrbuch 2024‹, the critics chose ›Liberté Cathédrale‹ as a ›Production of the Year‹.

31.07.2024

Fragile 2024

From 24 September to 6 October 2024 FRAGILE, the international festival of dance and performance will take place for the second time in Wuppertal. Once again, we will transform the future Pina Bausch Centre into a vibrant space for experiencing encounters and movement.

18.07.2024

Open Space SommerFERIENworkshop mit Abschlusspräsentation am 20. Juli 2024 um 14 Uhr

Die Kinder beschäftigen sich gemeinsam mit Künstler*innen damit, wie man sich selbstbestimmt mit den eigenen Geschichten auseinandersetzen und durch Malerei, Fotografie, Tanz, Video und Soundtechnik ausdrücken kann.

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Photo Wilfried Krüger, © Pina Bausch Foundation

The Project

The dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch made history: in dance, theatre and throughout the arts. Her unique work and artistic legacy enjoy the status of national cultural heritage. To keep this heritage alive, and provide new ways to access it, the Pina Bausch Centre is planned at Wuppertal’s former municipal theatre, the Schauspielhaus.

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Prof Ernst-Andreas Ziegler, founder of Wuppertal’s Junior Uni, on Pina Bausch as a role model

The architectural competition

The architectural competition for the new Pina Bausch Centre was announced in April 2022. It was a high-profile competition that attracted renowned national and international architecture practices, most of whom collaborated with landscape designers for their proposals.

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Architectural Realisation

The Schauspielhaus, Wuppertal’s former municipal theatre, was Pina Bausch’s favourite venue. She created the majority of her works for this stage. Now protected as a historic monument, yet still highly modern in feel, five decades after the building was first opened it has been offered a new future as part of the planned Pina Bausch Centre. On the basis of the plans for its use, Wuppertal council’s facilities management has created a project sketch for the architectural realisation of the idea.

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