Pina Bausch: a portrait by Peter Lindbergh
2001 / 28'Director:
Peter Lindbergh
Choreographer:
Pina Bausch
Photography:
Michael Goock
Performers:
Pina Bausch and Others
Production: Channel 4 International
United Kingdom
Based in Wuppertal, Pina Bausch's dancers travel from city to city every year, creating performances in which life in the city becomes
the protagonist - the sensation they get during their short visits. In Hong Cong they came up with the Window Washer - A journey that inspired Christiane Gibiec's film. Earlier on, it was Lisbon and Mazurca Fogo, New York and Nur Du (Only You) and, before that, somewhere else. Moving from city to city and highlighting what appeals to them as different, they actually speak about what brings these cities and their inhabitants together.
Pina Bausch travelled to Hong Kong the year it was given back to China. The Window Washer is one of her most recent works, in which dancing takes over theatre with long solos and group dancing. Peter Pabst's set includes a mountain of red flowers and a hanging bridge.
The film is a documentary without much speech. Peter Lindbergh is a distinguished photographer who has often worked for the fashion industry. In the same way that Pina Bausch has focused on dancing as a whole and the solos of her individual dancers in recent years, Lindbergh focuses on solos as if he were making a video portrait of each individual dancer and of the group as a whole.
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