Cal Performances Presents Program
Friday, November , , pm Saturday, November , , pm Ten Chi Sunday, November , , pm A piece by Pina Bausch Zellerbach Hall Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal Bettina Stoess Bettina
Director and Choreographer Pina Bausch Set Design Peter Pabst Costume Design Marion Cito Musical Collaboration Matthias Burkert, Andreas Eisenschneider Assistants to the Director Robert Sturm, Daphnis Kokkinos, Marion Cito
Bettina Stoess Bettina Performers Regina Advento, Ruth Amarante, Pablo Aran Gimeno, Mechthild Grossmann, Ten Chi Ditta Miranda, Jasjfi Eddie Martinez, Dominique Mercy, Th usnelda Mercy, A piece by Pina Bausch Pascal Merighi, Nazareth Panadero, Helena Pikon, Jorge Puerta Armenta, Azusa Seyama, Julie Shanahan, Julie Anne Stanzak, Fernando Suels Mendoza, Kenji Takagi, Aida Vainieri A co-production with Saitama Prefecture, Saitama Arts Foundation, Nippon Cultural Center and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal. Music Ryoko Moriyama, Hwang Byungki, Kodó, Yas-Kaz, Balanescu Quartet, Th omas Heberer, Funded by the German Federal Culture Foundation. René Aubry, Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man, Gustavo Santaolalla, Robert Wyatt, Kreidler, Th is performance is made possible, in part, by the generous support of the Goethe-Institut San Francisco. Labradford, Plastikman, Tudôsok, Underkarl, Club des Belugas Th e Goethe-Institut is Germany’s cultural institution operating worldwide, promoting the study of German abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and cooperation. Words Ruth Berlau, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Büchner, José Samarago, Cal Performances’ – season is sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank. Margarete Steffi n, Wislawa Szymborska and others
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was a dancer with the New American Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera. In , she returned to Germany and danced with Folkwang-Ballett, newly founded by Kurt Jooss. Starting in , Technical Director Jörg Ramershoven Ms. Bausch’s choreographic works entered the rep- Lighting Director Fernando Jacon ertoire of the Folkwang-Ballett; one year later, she Sound Andreas Eisenschneider became artistic director of the company. In , Stage Technicians Dietrich Röder, Martin Winterscheidt Pina Bausch became director and choreographer of Lighting Assistant Kerstin Hardt the newly founded Tanztheater Wuppertal. Wardrobe Andreas Maier, Ulrike Wüsten Besides her own pieces, in she performed
in Federico Fellini’s fi lm And the Ship Sails On. Assistant to Director Robert Sturm Additional projects include Die Klage der Kaiserin Set Design Assistant Gerburg Stoff el (Th e Complaint of the Empress) (), a fi lm di- Costume Design Assistant Svea Kossak rected by Pina Bausch; the staging of the cho- Ballet Master Janet Panetta reography for Le sacre du printemps (Th e Rite of Stage Manager Britta Schmidtke Spring) () for the Ballet de L’Opéra National Shiatsu Th erapist Ludger Müller de Paris; director of the opera Herzog Blaubarts Burg (Duke Bluebeard’s Castle) () by Béla Premiere May , Bartók for the Festival International d’Art Lyrique Duration Two hours, minutes, with one intermission d’Aix-en-Provence under the musical direction of
Performance Rights Edition L’Arche, Paris Iijima Atsushi Pierre Boulez; performing in Pedro Almodóvar’s fi lm Talk to Her with excerpts from Café Müller Th is engagement is produced by Pina Bausch was born in in Solingen, and Masurca Fogo by Pina Bausch (). In , Rena Shagan Associates, Inc. Germany. In , she began dance studies at the Pina Bausch celebrated for the fi rst time “Ein Fest A West Street, New York, New York Folkwang School in Essen, Germany, with Kurt in Wuppertal,” with friends and artitsts from all tel. () - Jooss as director, and graduated from there in over the world marking the th anniversary of fax () - . She received a scholarship for the German the Tanztheater Wuppertal. In October www.shaganarts.com Academical Exchange Service to the United States, and , Pina Bausch again directed her own President Rena Shagan and was a special student of Th e Juilliard School Festivals. In , she staged the choreography for Tour Coordinator Felicitas Willems in New York. Ms. Bausch danced with the Paul Orpheus und Eurydike with the Ballet de L’Opéra Sanasardo and Donya Feuer dance companies, and National de Paris. Visit www.pina-bausch.de.
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Selected choreographic works by Pina Bausch Viktor, a piece by Pina Bausch, in Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal co-production with Teatro Argentina, Rome Performed at BAM in Iphigenie auf Tauris, a dance-opera by Pina Bausch Artistic Director Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Palermo Palermo, a piece by Pina Bausch, in Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck co-production with Teatro Biondo Palermo Managing Director Koza Tamdogan and Andres Neumann International Frühlingsopfer (Le sacre du printemps), a piece Set Design Peter Pabst Performed at BAM in by Pina Bausch Music by Igor Stravinsky Costume Design Marion Cito Danzón, a piece by Pina Bausch Performed at BAM in Assistant to Artistic Director Robert Sturm Die Sieben Todsünden (Th e Seven Deadly Sins) with Th e Seven Deadly Sins of the Rehearsal Assistants Josephine Ann Endicott, Bénédicte Billiet, Der Fensterputzer (Th e Window Washer), Petty Bourgeoisie and Don’t Be Afraid, Matthias Burkert, Marion Cito, Barbara a piece by Pina Bausch a dance-evening by Pina Bausch Commissioned by the Hong Kong Kaufmann, Daphnis Kokkinos, Ed Kortlandt, Music by Kurt Weill, text by Bertolt Brecht International Arts Festival Dominique Mercy, Helena Pikon, Hans Pop Performed at BAM in Performed at BAM in Ballet Masters Christine Biedermann, Ernesta Corvino, Blaubart—Beim Anhören einer Masurca Fogo, a piece by Pina Bausch, in co- Ed Kortlandt, Christine Kono, Paul Melis, Tonbandaufnahme von Béla Bartók’s production with the EXPO Lisbon Agnes Pallai, Janet Panetta »Herzog Blaubarts Burg« (Bluebeard— and Goethe-Institut Lisbon While Listening to a Taped Recording of Pianist Matthias Burkert Performed at BAM in Béla Bartók’s “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle”), Stage Manager Peter Lütke a piece by Pina Bausch Água, a piece by Pina Bausch, in co- Performed at BAM in production with Brazil, the Goethe- Personal Assistant to Pina Bausch Sabine Hesseling Institute São Paolo and Emilio Kalil Café Müller, a piece by Pina Bausch Assistant to Pina Bausch Marc Wagenbach Performed at BAM in Für die Kinder von Gestern, Heute und Assistant to Managing Director Tatjana Tresselt Kontakthof, a piece by Pina Bausch Morgen (For the Children of Yesterday, Performed at BAM in Today and Tomorrow), a piece by Organization Katharina Bauer, Grigori Chakhov, Pina Bausch Oliver Golloch, Claudia Irman Arien (Arias), a piece by Pina Bausch Performed at BAM in Video Archives Grigori Chakhov Performed at BAM in Nefés, a piece by Pina Bausch, in Technical Director Manfred Marczewski, Jörg Ramershoven , a piece by Pina Bausch co-production with the International Performed at BAM in Istanbul Th eatre Festival and the Lighting Director Fernando Jacon Istanbul Foundation of Culture and Arts Bandoneón, a piece by Pina Bausch Lighting Assistants Jo Verlei Performed at BAM in Performed at BAM in Stage Technicians Dietrich Röder, Martin Winterscheidt Rite of Spring, a piece by Pina Bausch Ten Chi, a piece by Pina Bausch, in co- Performed at BAM in production with Saitama Prefecture, Sound Andreas Eisenschneider Saitama Arts Foundation, Japan, and Properties and Merchandizing Th omas Ahrens, Jan Szito Nelken (Carnations), a piece by Pina Bausch Nippon Cultural Center Performed at BAM in Wardrobe Harald Boll, Silvia Franco, Andreas Maier, Rough Cut, a piece by Pina Bausch, in co- Katrin Moos, Ulrike Wüsten Auf dem Gebirge hat Man ein Geschrei production with LG Arts Center and the Gehört (On the Mountain a Cry Was Goethe-Institute Seoul, Korea Shiatsu Th erapist Ludger Müller Heard), a piece by Pina Bausch Performed at BAM in Vollmond (Full Moon), a piece by Pina Bausch
Two Cigarettes in the Dark, a piece by New Piece , a piece by Pina Bausch, in Pina Bausch co-production with the Goethe-Institutes Performed at BAM in in India
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