Film by Lee Yanor, 2006
Lee Yanor met Pina Bausch in Paris in 1993. They struck up a friendship. In 2002 and 2005, the director accompanied Pina Bausch in Paris and in Wuppertal. The first film shows excerpts from Pina Bausch’s pieces Água (2001) and Rough Cut (2005).
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.