Tanztheater Wuppertal’s dancers treat the audience like lovers in an entrancing show of seductive elegance Pina Bausch had a pair of secret weapons in Matthias Burkert and Andreas Eisenschneider, who ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “If you have a problem, I can scream for you.” Yes, Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal is back at Sadler’s ...

A dancer’s work is written on the wind – when they stop performing, it’s a little death. At various points in this engagingly ruminative show, a veteran dancer from Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal ...

Pina Bausch’s penultimate work is a hymn to fierce and fabulous older women “Don’t forget” is the rallying cry of Pina Bausch’s penultimate work. It’s stated firmly, sometimes yelled at us by the ...

The great German choreographer's landmark work, which was first presented in 1978 in Wuppertal, is revived on the main stage of Greece's National Theatre with an entirely Greek cast. "Kontakthof", one ...

Pina Bausch's ‘Sweet Mambo' will come to Sadler's Wells Theatre from Wednesday 11 February – Saturday 21 February 2026. First staged in 2008, the choreographer's penultimate work makes its London ...

Against a minimalist background of billowing white fabric, “Sweet Mambo” unfolds as a series of contrasting vignettes probing the emotional impact of building and losing interpersonal relationships.

When a choreographer dies, their art lingers in the memories of those who moved with them, in the steps and movements passed down through generations of dancers, and becomes part of the company’s ...

In a rehearsal studio lined by floor-to-ceiling mirrors in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Anique Ayiboe is hunched in on herself, a ball of nerves. Tonight, the 33-year-old Togolese member of the ...

Kontakthof is a 1978 show full of tenderness, violence and horror. Now, in a spectacular production, its first performers are bringing it back. But would Bausch have approved? Theatres are haunted ...

It’s been 50 years since Pina Bausch’s controversial The Rite of Spring was met with fury. As its most recent revival bows out after a four-year tour, its creatives talk to Nick Smurthwaite about ...

The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...