Kontakthof is Pina Bausch’s third piece to enter the repertoire of the Paris Opera Ballet after The Rite of Spring (1997) and Orpheus and Eurydice (2005). We find there all the elements specific to the universe of the German choreographer: love, anguish, violence, desire, sadness but also a lot of humor. In a setting by Rolf Borzik – a large ballroom with gray walls – men in dark suits and women in satin dresses and stilettos meet, cross paths, confront each other, gaze at each other. The dance is interrupted by sequences at the microphone: stops on memories, snippets of life… This major work of dance theater by Pina Bausch, created in 1978 in Wuppertal for around twenty dancers, requires a strong expressiveness which reveals the personalities of each of the performers.
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