nelken (carnations) a piece by pina bausch

WED 9 MAR–SAT 12 MAR / FESTIVAL THEATRE PRESENTED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ARTS PROJECTS AUSTRALIA

NELKEN (CARNATIONS)A PIECE BY PINA BAUSCHTANZTHEATER WUPPERTAL PINA BAUSCH

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Duration 2hrs, no interval

Nelken (Carnations)

DANCE

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE,

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Warning Contains partial nudity

A PIECE BY PINA BAUSCHTANZTHEATER WUPPERTAL PINA BAUSCH

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

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

CAST AND CREW

50Premiere 30 December 1982

PINA BAUSCH 1940 – 2009Pina 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.

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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

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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)

MUSICThe 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

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