Agenda Venezia

We’re all children

 

One of the greatest choreographers and directors of our “fin de siècle” age, Pina Bausch has succeeded in reuniting, in contemporary terms, theatrical genres and modes of expression which for centuries had been divided. Her own personal form of “total theatre”, finely balanced between irony and despair, reflects the linguistic fragmentation, existential woes and all-consuming poetry of our epoch.

Her artistic creations, which base their inimitable style on a director’s skillful manipulation of dancers’ and actors’ dramaturgical production in the course of improvisation, have served as illuminating lessons all around the world, bringing the dance to life again in numerous countries.

Miss Bausch, indifferent to the beauty of form and to the agile estheticism typical of the “paradisiacal” ballet, has constructed, with the help of her extraordinary dancers (the Tanztheater Wuppertal), the sense of a theatre truly able to talk about feelings, anger,the game-like struggle for power, dreamlands, childhood mysteries, obsessions in which all of us can recognize ourselves, like the difficulty in being loved and understood, the fear of loneliness, the horror of violence and abuse.

Throughout her long career, Pina Bausch has succeeded in forming a vast repertory of spectacular events, sweeping poetic frescoes which so vividly portray our times and the authenticity of our experiences in nuclear form.

Now the German choreographer/director has returned to Italy, to the Fenice Theatre, with the exclusive Italian preview of Für die kinder von gestern, heute und morgen.

The début of this event took place in Wuppertal in May 2002.

Lorella Casagrande (translation of Maria Fasolo)