Film by Anne Linsel, 2010
In 2000, Pina Bausch staged her piece Kontakthof (1978) with a cast of non-professional dancers aged 65 and older. Eight years later, she rehearsed the piece with teenagers from Wuppertal. Anne Linsel observed the 40 teenagers from different schools in Wuppertal for almost a year leading up to the premiere.
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.