Pina Bausch: Talk To Her By Pedro Almadova

Born in Solingen, Germany, in 1940, Pina Bausch is a contemporary dance theatre performer and choreographer. She was the founder and creative director of the ‘’Tanztheatre Wuppertal’’ company and had been since early 1973. She was a huge contributor and leading influence in the evolution of ‘Dance Theatre’ Some of her best known dance- theatre works include the melancholic Café Muller (1978) in which the dancers ran around the stage crashing and stumbling into pieces of furniture, another one being Frühlingsopfer (The Rise of Spring), a frantic piece which combined innovative use of emotion and set, the entire stage was covered in soil. Relationships,was quite a prominent theme in her works, Bausch had a precise way of drawing emotions from her dancers that she could later use when creating her performances. Male- Female interaction also played a large part in how Pina created and devised some of her work; this theme is evident throughout and is especially highlighted through her movie Talk to Her, which was directed by Pedro Almadova.In this essay I will look further into how Pina drew the emotions from others, collected their feelings and thrived from them, I will look at the ways she has inspired
Her set is never there to overpower what is being performed but is there to highlight and emphasise the motions and movements. Pina’s work is often delivered in montages and lighting and timing compliment the performers. When watching her work you can tell that every tiny aspect of the performance has been thought about so thoroughly, but when it comes to Pina’s actual devising technique she and her troupe of dancers give nothing but emotion, every move they make has been choreographed not physically but mentally, within a story, and this is clear to