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

The editors of ›tanz – Zeitschrift für Ballett, Tanz und Performance‹ announced today:

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‹ by Boris Charmatz
for the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and Terrain as a
›Production of the year‹

The award says:
»Charmatz shows what he is capable of, and at his best: devising choreographic cathedrals of bodies and movements. ›Liberté Cathédrale‹ is a bombastic procession of almost thirty dancers, whose collective rush past the audience repeatedly sparks a breeze – which you can feel on your own skin. Then again they come individually and whisper their verses in our ears or sing gentle folk tunes. ›Liberté Cathédrale‹ breathes freely and frees dance from all the constraints of older or more recent dance history, replacing them with self-determined rhythms and forms.«
Thomas Hahn in the ›Jahrbuch 2024‹ of the magazine tanz

Congratulations to Boris Charmatz, the ensemble and everyone involved in Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and Terrain!
The yearbook is available in station bookshops and at www.der-theaterverlag.de.