Film by Lilo Mangelsdorff, 2002
Lilo Mangelsdorff accompanied 26 lay and amateur dancers aged between 65 and 72 as they rehearsed a revised version of Pina Bausch’s piece Kontakthof (premiered 1978). The resulting film is a moving reflection about challenges, overcoming obstacles, effort, intimacy and closeness.
The Lichtburg returns to its previous incarnation as a cinema. Documentary films made in different decades and from different perspectives look at the work of Pina Bausch and the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Among the directors are Chantal Akerman, Klaus Wildenhahn, Lee Yanor, Wim Wenders and Pina Bausch herself.