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Pina Bausch is one of the most significant choreographers of the 21st century. After setting up her company in 1973, she created 42 pieces in a career spanning 36 years before her untimely death in 2009. She left behind a peerless legacy of having popularised a renewed brand of dance theatre around the world, continuing to inspire choreographers in every discipline of dance. The relationships between women and men - seduction, happiness and misery, physical and mental fragility - are explored in the inimitable style of the great Pina Bausch. In each life-affirming scene dancers tell stories, flirt, fight, decry, seduce and abandon each other. Revelling in life's inherent humour, Pina Bausch's unique concept of dance theatre creates beautiful, ambiguous imagery that mixes glamour and movement with a raft of recurring props - from water and fruit to chairs and dirt - creating ever-changing visual collages that balance on a knife-edge between reality and surrealism. One of her final works, Sweet Mambo is an exciting combination of solos and ensemble dances, gentle gestures and sumptuous costumes as dreams, sorrows and anecdotes unfold. Running time: 2hrs 30mins approx.

Creatives/Company

Director: Pina Bausch
Choreographer: Pina Bausch
Design: Peter Pabst
Costume: Marion Cito