Monday, September 17, 2012
Dance The late work of German choreographer Pina Bausch to be discussed at free Emory lecture
Posted by Andrew Alexander @AndrewAWriter on Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:48 PM
- Courtesy Wim Wenders
- An image from the 2011 film "Pina" by Wim Wenders. On Tuesday evening, Dr. Kate Elswit of Stanford University delivers a free lecture about the late great German choreographer.
On Tuesday, September 18, at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Kate Elswit of Stanford University will discuss the artist's legacy, particularly the late work World Cities, in a free lecture at Emory University in the presentation room of the Oxford Road building. The event is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the Oxford Road Deck.
The World Cities dances were originally presented this summer as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad in London. The pieces were based on the company's residencies in ten world capitals. “World Cities,” with its 10 productions shown over 20 performances at two London theaters, each just two or three days apart, represented the last major new work by Bausch's company that included her involvement.
This summer the New York Times described some of the World Cities shows:
“Viktor,” the work from Rome, is set in and around an enormous grave, the walls of which must be resprayed with glue and freshly covered with earth for each performance. In the Los Angeles-inspired “Nur Du (Only You)” the stage is filled with enormous sequoia trees. “Der Fensterputzer (The Window Washer),” created after a Hong Kong residency, is dominated by a 20-foot-high mound of red silk flowers. “Nefés” (Istanbul) has water slowly rise through the wooden floor to create a shallow lake. “Ten Chi” (Saitama, Japan) is dominated by an enormous whale tail. And in “Palermo, Palermo” a wall made of 500 bricks crashes to the stage in the opening moments.
“What’s so extraordinary about Pina’s work is that it doesn’t start from the architectonics of movement; it starts from the autobiography of the dancers,” theater director Peter Sellars told the New York Times in the same article. “She went right into the dark heart of things we are confused, tormented and disunited by, and allowed this pain to be shared and exalted in a collective, experiential, radically shared space.”
Dr. Kate Elswit delivers her lecture on Pina Bausch titled "Worlding Bodies, Bodying History: Pina Bausch's Late Style in the World Cities Performances of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad" at Emory University's Oxford Road Building Presentation Room on Tuesday, September 18, sat 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
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