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Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012
Palermo Palermo (Palermo)
1 - 2 July 2012 / 19:30
Sadler's Wells
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Tickets:
£15-55
subject to availability
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'Desire, disappointment, closeness, loneliness. beauty, destitution and hardship, happiness. There is a power in sorrow, which cannot be beaten.'*
Pina Bausch was invited by the Mayor of Palermo, Sicily's capital, to create a piece inspired by the city. Palermo, Palermo is not overtly about the Mafia, the Sicily of antiquity or package tours, or the old native aristocracy pictured in novels like The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. Nonetheless, the sight of a wall that closes off the entire stage speaks of a walled-off society where silence is the code among its criminals.
Bausch’s use of music from various parts of the world and periods, rather than limited to Sicilian or Italian folk songs and marching bands evokes Sicily's role as the crossroads of ancient times. Moreover, the brick-strewn stage covered with the litter thrown by the dancers is any modern piazza: the site of macho attitudes at which Pina Bausch takes aim without any need to dwell upon the obvious.
Palermo Palermo is an unexpectedly humorous but subliminally grim work set in a spectacular scenic context true to Pina Bausch’s style.
Premiere 17 December 1989.
A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Teatro Biondo Stabile, Palermo and Andres Neumann International.
Part of London 2012 Festival
Part of Theatre & Dance - Jan - Sep 2012
Part of London 2012 Festival
Part of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012
*All texts by Norbert Servos
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