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Dance hall dynamite just keeps on giving: Pina Bausch/Meryl Tankard: Kontakthof, Echoes of ’78 review

This parody of courting rituals brings back its inaugural dancers 48 years on – ghosting their onstage choreography with footage of their younger selves, for a moving look at the passing of time

The Guardian - UK

Euphoria, Francis Bacon and more: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

Zendaya returns for the third season of young adult drama Euphoria, while a fascinating new French exhibition studies Francis Bacon's later works. Here's what to keep an eye out for this week.

Euronews

Tutu review – cheeky tribute to ballet has a disco Swan Lake and the Dirty Dancing lift

The all-male French troupe Chicos Mambo mix parody and pointework in a fast-paced comic celebration of dance’s high art and sillier side

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Sweet Mambo review – Pina Bausch’s funny valentine is the stuff of dreams

Tanztheater Wuppertal’s dancers treat the audience like lovers in an entrancing show of seductive elegance

The Guardian - UK

‘Sweet Mambo’ at Sadler's Wells: A Pina Bausch supergroup pierce your heart

4/5 Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch deliver one of the great choreographer’s last works in highly engaging - and occasionally drenched - fashion

Evening Standard

'Kontakthof': Greece revives Pina Bausch at its National Theatre

The great German choreographer's landmark work, which was first presented in 1978 in Wuppertal, is revived on the main stage of Greece's National Theatre with an entirely Greek cast.

Euronews

Thikra: Night of Remembering at Sadler’s Wells review — 'a stirring finale for Akram Khan's company'

3/5 The dancer winds up his company after 25 impressive years with this all-female show that’s fierce — if confusing

Evening Standard

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‘Trippy’: the Pina Bausch classic being revived by its original cast – dancing with their younger selves

Kontakthof is a 1978 show full of tenderness, violence and horror. Now, in a spectacular production, its first performers are bringing it back. But would Bausch have approved?

The Guardian - UK

“It’s about bringing their vision to life”: What it’s like to be a Fashion Week hairstylist

Anna Cofone has worked with designers from Roksanda to Chet Lo on bringing their designs to life.

The Independent UK

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Vollmond review – glamorous, surreal and very, very wet

With its off-kilter comedy and flirtatious touches, this show is Bausch at her most accessible – and beautiful

The Guardian - UK

Vollmond at Sadler’s Wells Theatre review: a watery wonderland of restless romance

3.5/5 Pina Bausch’s world of humans on the edge combines abundant silliness with spiky music - and lots of rain

Evening Standard

‘People don’t want choreography – they want human beings’: Pina Bausch’s son on her legacy

Salomon Bausch, head of the foundation set up in his mother’s name, talks about the enduring, visceral appeal of the dance pioneer’s work and preserving the sense of potential in her work

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Rebecca Frecknall’s cultural highlights

The theatre director on the best novel she’s read in a long time, Tracey Emin’s latest exhibition, exercising in the dark, and a Middle Eastern vegetarian restaurant

The Guardian - UK

Heartbreaking loss of global artistry at Aust festivals

Back at the helm of the Adelaide Festival, Brett Sheehy is heartbroken by the loss of international artistry at Australia's big city arts festivals.

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‘It’s mind-blowing for me’: Boris Charmatz on leading Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal

The French choreographer took over Bausch’s dance company in 2022. He never met his hero, but explains how their histories have entwined

The Guardian - UK

Forever (Immersion dans Café Müller de Pina Bausch) review – a heartbreaking redux

Bausch’s 1978 classic is presented six times, interspersed with memories of the performers, in this epic treatment by Boris Charmatz

Evening Standard

The 11 best documentaries of the past 25 years: from Grizzly Man to 20 Days in Mariupol

From extraordinary human feats to stories of enduring hope, these exceptional films will stay with viewers

The Guardian - UK

Nelken review – new generation restores the bloom of Pina Bausch’s classic

On a stage covered in thousands of silk carnations, a beguiling cast of 20 explore fear, fun, control, bunny-hopping and onions, ending ultimately in hope

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‘She’s the mother of African dance’: the Senegal sensation who shook the world

She was the only black student in her Paris school, constantly criticised for her ‘big butt and flat feet’. But she went on to win awards worldwide, including the Venice Golden Lion. As Germaine Acogny finally hits Britain, the dancer relives her path to the top

The Guardian - UK

From The Iron Claw to Zara Larsson: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

A heavyweight drama tells the story of wrestling family the Von Erichs, while the Swedish pop singer finds the love alongside David Guetta

The Guardian - UK

Marion Cito, ingenious costume designer to Pina Bausch, dies aged 85

Cito, who had been a dancer herself, spent 40 years working for Tanztheater Wuppertal

The Conversation

The cross-Africa dance company bringing new life to Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring

At its premiere in 1913, Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring shocked audiences and divided critics. The ballet centred around a straightforward yet brutal narrative – a community selects a sacrificial victim, a virgin who will be martyred to their fertility god to secure a good harvest. The…

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh festival dance: After All; Dances Like a Bomb; The Rite of Spring – review

Solène Weinachter’s funeral guest is a triumph of sound and vision. Elsewhere, a tragicomic study of ageing, and a thrilling Rite of Spring returns

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a grief and a healing’: why dance-makers love The Rite of Spring

Stravinsky’s ballet sensation of 1913 shocked its first Paris audience. More than 150 versions later, the far-reaching pull of this modernist masterpiece remains irresistible…

Chicago Sun-Times

Fall dance preview 2022: Ukraine’s Kyiv City Ballet, Elevate Chicago Dance, Cloud Gate Theatre among season highlights

The Kyiv City Ballet undertakes its first-ever American tour Sept. 16 through Oct. 24, including performances at the Auditorium Theatre.

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