ABSTRACT
Pina Bausch is the director of the Wuppertaler Tanztheater, which has gained international fame for its unique blend of theatre and dance. It began about ten years ago as a ballet company attached to the opera house in Wuppertal, West Germany. At first Bausch choreographed ballets, but soon she began to work on modern operas like Bartok’s Bluebeard and plays like Macbeth, adapting them for dancers. Then she started to create her own plays, loosely collecting improvised scenes around a given theme. Bausch’s plays are nonlinear and deal with dreams and desires, associations and fantasies; the dancers/authors invent stories and actions that reveal their personal lives as well as a kind of collective unconscious.
