MONDAY 14 NOVEMBER | 7.30PM
WOODEND BARN, BANCHORY
A film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders.
A groundbreaking dance film by Wim Wenders, Pina shines a spotlight on Pina Bausch, the unique and iconic modern-dance choreographer.
In early 2009, Wim Wenders and his production company Neue Road Movies, together with Pina Bausch and the Ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal, began the phase of actual pre-production. After half a year of intensive work, and only two days before the planned 3D rehearsal shoot, the unimaginable happened: Pina Bausch died on June 30th 2009, suddenly and unexpectedly. Around the world admirers of her art and friends of the Tanztheater Wuppertal mourned the death of the great choreographer.
After a period of mourning and reflection and encouraged by many international appeals, the consent of the family, and the request of staff and dancers of the ensemble who were just about to start rehearsing the pieces selected for the film, Wim Wenders decided to make the film without Pina Bausch at his side, after all. Her inquiring, affectionate look at the gestures and movements of her ensemble and every detail of her choreography was still alive and present and inscribed into the bodies of her dancers. Now, in spite of the great loss, was the right moment, and maybe the last one to record all this on film. The film takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble. Contains brief natural nudity.
(Germany 2011) Cert U
Starring: Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo and Ruth Amarante (104 mins)
Photograph: Laurent Philippe
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