Film by Chantal Akerman, 1982
Writing about the Belgian director in the magazine The New Yorker, Richard Brody described the film as ‘a work of modestly daring wonder, of exploration and inspiration [… that shares …] the immediate exhilaration of the moment of creation.’ The film is an unusual document of the work of Pina Bausch and her ensemble.
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.