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NELKEN (CARNATIONS)
A PIECE BY PINA BAUSCH
TANZTHEATER WUPPERTAL PINA BAUSCH
WED 9 MAR–SAT 12 MAR / FESTIVAL THEATRE
PRESENTED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ARTS PROJECTS AUSTRALIA
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DANCE
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Nelken (Carnations)
A PIECE BY PINA BAUSCH
TANZTHEATER WUPPERTAL PINA BAUSCH
CAST AND CREW
Director and Choreographer Pina Bausch
Set Design Peter Pabst
Costume Design Marion Cito
Dramatic Advisor Raimund Hoghe
Collaboration Matthias Burkert, Hans Pop
Music Franz Schubert, George Gershwin,
Franz Lehár, Louis Armstrong, Sophie Tucker,
Quincy Jones, Richard Tauber and others
Dancers Regina Advento, Pablo Aran
Gimeno, Emma Barrowman, Andrey Berezin,
Michael Carter, Çağdaş Ermis, Jonathan
Fredrickson, Scott Jennings, Eddie Martinez,
Blanca Noguerol Ramírez, Breanna O´Mara,
Franko Schmidt, Julie Shanahan, Julie Anne
Stanzak, Julian Stierle, Michael Strecker,
Fernando Suels Mendoza, Tsai-Wei Tien,
Anna Wehsarg, Paul White, Ophelia Young,
Tsai-Chin Yu
Stuntmen Bodo Haack, Jürgen Klein,
Hendrik Mohr, Robert Schenker
Performance Rights L’Arche Editeur, Paris
Artistic Director Lutz Förster
Rehearsal Directors Barbara Kaufmann,
Dominique Mercy
Technical Director Jörg Ramershoven
Lighting Director Fernando Jacon
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Lighting Assistants Peter Bellingshausen,
Sound Andreas Eisenschneider, Karsten Fischer
Stage Manager Andreas Deutz
Stage Technicians Dietrich Röder,
Martin Winterscheidt
Props Arnulf Eichholz
Wardrobe Harald Boll, Silvia Franco,
Iris Miltrup
Ballet Master Ernesta Corvino
Pianist David Sandes
Physiotherapist Jochen Heisterbach
General Director Dirk Hesse
Personal Assistant to Directors
Sabine Hesseling
Tour coordination Claudia Irman
German Shephards provided by
Alimanda Kennels Jean Butterfield,
Ray Mercer, Gayle Mercer
German Shepherd Handlers Ray Mercer,
Teegan Telfer, Alec Mangan, Tom Mills
Medical support provided by Globe Medical
Presented by arrangement with
Arts Projects Australia
Premiere 30 December 1982
Duration
2hrs, no interval
Warning
Contains partial nudity
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PINA BAUSCH
1940 – 2009
Pina Bausch was one of the most significant choreographers of our time. Born in 1940 in
Solingen, Bausch has been awarded some of the greatest prizes and honours world-wide.
She received her dance training at the Folkwang School in Essen under Kurt Jooss, where
she achieved technical excellence. In the autumn of 1973 the director of Wuppertal’s theatres,
Arno Wüstenhöfer, engaged her as choreographer and she renamed the ensemble Tanztheater
Wuppertal. Although initially controversial, the company gradually achieved international
recognition. Its combination of poetic and everyday elements has decisively influenced the
international development of dance.
TANZTHEATER WUPPERTAL PINA BAUSCH
Image: Oliver Look
It began with controversy. In 1973 Pina
Bausch was appointed Director of Dance
for the Wuppertal theatres and the form she
developed in those early years, a mixture of
dance and theatre, was wholly unfamiliar. In
her performances the players did not merely
dance; they spoke, sang and sometimes
they cried or laughed too. But this strange
new work succeeded in establishing itself.
In Wuppertal the seeds were sown for a
revolution which was to emancipate and
redefine dance throughout the world.
Dance theatre evolved into a unique genre,
inspiring choreographers throughout the world,
influencing theatre and classical ballet too. Its
global success can be attributed to the fact
that Pina Bausch made a universal need the
key subject of her work: the need for love, for
intimacy and emotional security. To this end
she developed an artistic form which could
incorporate highly diverse cultural influences.
In consistently renewed poetic excursions
she investigated what brings us closer to
fulfilling our need for love, and what distances
us from it. Hers is a world of theatre which
does not seek to teach and does not claim to
know better. Instead Bausch’s work creates
experiences: exhilarating or sorrowful, gentle
or confrontational, often comic or absurd
too. It creates driven, moving images of inner
landscapes, exploring the precise state of
human feelings while never giving up hope that
the longing for love can one day be met.
Alongside hope, a close engagement with
reality is another key to the work; the pieces
consistently relate to things every member
of the audience knows and has experienced,
both personally and physically. Over the
thirty-six years in which Pina Bausch shaped
the work of the Tanztheater Wuppertal, till
her death in 2009, she created an oeuvre
which casts an unerring gaze at reality,
while simultaneously giving us the courage
to be true to our own wishes and desires.
Her unique ensemble, rich with varied
personalities, will continue to maintain these
values in the years to come.
NORBERT SERVOS
(Translated by Steph Morris)
MUSIC
The Man I Love
Composed by Ira Gershwin and
George Gershwin
Performed by Sophie Tucker
© 1924 WB Music Corp. By kind permission of
Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd
String Quartet in D minor – ‘Der Tod und
das Mädchen’ (‘Death of the Maiden)
Composed by Franz Schubert
Performed by Melos Quartet
Sophisticated Lady
Composed by Ellington/Harwick/Brown/Mille
Performed by Duke Ellington and
his Orchestra
Schön Ist Die Welt
Composed by Franz Lehár
Performed by Rudolf Schock and the
Berliner Symphoniker
East St. Louis Toddle-O
Composed by Duke Ellington and
Bubber Miley
Performed by Duke Ellington and
his Orchestra
Shades of Sennet
Composed by Henry Mancini
Performed by Henry Mancini and
his Orchestra
West End Blues
Composed by King Oliver
Performed by Louis Armstrong and his
Hot Five
Last Night I Dreamed You Kissed Me
Composed by Gus Kahn and
Carmen Lombardo
Performed by Lillie Delk Christian with
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Four
Pastorinhas
Composed by Noel Rosa and Joao de Barro
Performed by Banda do corpo de Bombeiros
do Distrito Federal
Dama das Camelias
Composed by Joao de Barro and
Alcyr Pires Vemelho
Performed by Banda do corpo de Bombeiros
do Distrito Federal
Malmequer
Composed by Christovao de Alencar and
Newton Teixeira
Performed by Banda do corpo de Bombeiros
do Distrito Federal
Romance in the Dark
Composed by Sam Coslow and
Gertrude Niesen
Performed by Billie Holiday
ARTS PROJECTS AUSTRALIA
Arts Projects Australia (APA) is an arts and event management company which operates as a
producer and presenter of high quality contemporary performing arts and events.
Since its establishment in 1997, APA has produced and toured over 160 international
contemporary arts events and is the event manager and producer of WOMADelaide. Tours
have included Grupo Corpo, The Royal Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece starring Camille
O’Sullivan, Kneehigh Theatre’s Brief Encounter, Tim Supple’s Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Druid Theatre’s The Walworth Farce, Ballet Preljocaj, Batsheva, Groupe F, Kronos Quartet,
Ludovico Einaudi and Cirque Alfonse.
artsprojectsaustralia.com.au
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