Films on Art
Pina’s Pearls
Fri 31.01.25, 20:00
Pina Bausch Zentrum under construction, Bundesallee 260, Wuppertal
Tickets: 9€ regular/ 7€ reduced
D 2024, Director: Anne Linsel
Duration: 75 minutes
Interview film by the Wuppertal cultural journalist and filmmaker Anne Linsel, which deals with the biographies of dancers from the first and second ‘hour’ of Tanztheater Wuppertal. Regina Advento, Bénédicte Billiet, Jo Ann Endicott, Lutz Förster, Barbara Kaufmann, Daphnis Kokkinos, Ed Kortlandt, Dominique Mercy, Nazareth Panadero, Julie Shanahan and Julie Anne Stanzak, who developed and shaped Tanztheater Wuppertal with Pina Bausch, talk about their lives: Childhood, parental home, youth, cultural environment, training for dance, the path to Pina Bausch, the special work with the choreographer, the passing on of the pieces after Pina Bausch's death. Almost 40 hours of material have been used to create a 75-minute film that provides a variety of insights into the history of dance theatre.
Between 2012 and 2024, the Films on Art series was held in the glass hall of Café Podest in the Waldfrieden Sculpture Park. In spring 2025, it will now make a guest appearance at the Pina Bausch Centre under construction. Curator Mark Tykwer has three special cinema evenings on the program: the interview film Pina’s Pearls by Wuppertal journalist and filmmaker Anne Linsel about the first and second generation of dancers at Tanztheater Wuppertal (Friday, 31. January), the current light and land art documentary Tracing Light by Thomas Riedelsheimer (Friday, 7. February) and finally Wim Wenders' artistic Anselm Kiefer portrait Anselm – Das Rauschen der Zeit (2D) (Friday, 14. February).