Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

A double evening of contemporary dance by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch at the Teatro Real, featuring two works by Pina Bausch: Café Müller and La consagración de la primavera.

The company Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch presents a double bill of contemporary dance at the Teatro Real, bringing together two works by Pina Bausch. The Teatro Real, whose programming centres on opera, thus hosts a production that combines movement with theatre and emotional expression, a language specific to the creator of Tanztheater.

Café Müller builds an intimate world from the repetition of minimal gestures, accompanied by the music of Henry Purcell, and conveys fragility, memory and abandonment. In contrast to that restraint, La consagración de la primavera, set to Ígor Stravinski's score, proposes a primitive, collective energy: the stage is covered in wet peat and the performers, smeared with it, give body to a ritual violence linked to sacrifice.

Pina Bausch performed her role in Café Müller until shortly before her death in 2009. Founded and directed for decades by Pina Bausch in Wuppertal, the company has established itself as one of the most prestigious dance companies in the world, and its repertoire, centred on the works of its founder, continues to tour internationally.