Film | Pina Bausch, 2014 (Re-edit)
In 1986/87, when Pina Bausch and her ensemble developed the piece Ahnen, she allowed the rehearsals to be caught on camera. The resulting film provides a fascinating insight into the gestation of the piece. At the same time, the film represents Bausch’s first translation of her creative practice into another medium and her quest for a cinematic language of her own.
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.