Pina Bausch

A film by Anne Linsel, 2006

The journalist Anne Linsel interviews Pina Bausch and key contemporaries of the famous choreographer. In a series of intimate and probing conversations, Linsel creates a comprehensive picture of the Wuppertal company and of Pina Bausch herself.

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.