Dancing Pina: dir Florian Heinzen-Ziob (2022)

Two spectacular dance projects show how a young generation of dancers from all over the world are rediscovering Pina Bausch’s choreography: the Semperoper Ballet Company in Dresden rehearses her dance opera Iphigenia in Tauris, and dancers from all over Africa rehearse Bausch’s ballet Le Sacre du Printemps at the École des Sables in Senegal. Dancers from traditions street dance, classical ballet, traditional and modern African dance transform Pina Bausch’s work – and Pina’s choreography transforms the dancers. A visually intense and emotionally charged journey into the world of modern dance and beyond.

The screening, in the MOVE ON FILM season, is followed by a talk and Q&A with Jean Laurent Sasportes (a principal dancer with the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch from 1979 to 1997 who has continued to be involved with the Pina Bausch repertoire).