10.10.2024

Dance and sustainability at FRAGILE 2024 – Pina Bausch Zentrum under construction #6

Thirteen days, eleven productions, 24 performances, a diverse audience of all generations, equality across all participants and team, biotopes from the Amazon to the Wadden Sea. FRAGILE 2024, the international festival for sustainability and art, ended in Wuppertal on October 6, 2024.

20.09.2024

Neubegegnung mit Pina Bauschs Kontakthof

Sadler's Wells, die Pina Bausch Foundation und das Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch kündigen heute Kontakthof – Echoes of '78 an, eine Neubegegnung mit Pina Bauschs ikonischem Werk, konzipiert und inszeniert von Meryl Tankard, die selbst eine der zentralen Protagonist:innen der Originalbesetzung von 1978 war. Tankard wird für diese einzigartige Produktion, die Ende November 2024 im Opernhaus Wuppertal uraufgeführt wird, insgesamt acht Mitglieder der Originalbesetzung zusammenbringen.

18.09.2024

Fragile 2024

FRAGILE 2024, the international festival for sustainability and art, will take place in Wuppertal from September 24 to October 6, 2024. It is the first and only festival in Germany and internationally that is dedicated exclusively to this topic with dance and performance – climate change, social sustainability and the encouragement to take action.

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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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Ausstellungseröffnung zum Wettbewerb Pina Bausch Zentrum

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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