Palermo Palermo of Pina Bausch returns to Teatro Biondo, where he debuted three decades ago, in an original film version, to be presented the world exclusive 3 November, at 20.00, during a day dedicated to the German choreographer on the tenth anniversary of the disappearance.
The film Palermo Palermo, realized by Pina Bausch Foundation, It is taken from footage shot during some performances of the historical spectacle, which he debuted premiered in Wuppertal in December 1989 A few days later, in January 1990, the Teatro Biondo.
They will be present at the screening, open free to the city until all seats, the Mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando, who had promoted the creation of the show starting a decisive synergy between the citizen and Stable Society of Wuppertal, the son of choreographer Salomon Bausch, now executive director of the Pina Bausch Foundation, Ismael Day, Archive director Pina Bausch Foundation, who has edited the film, Elisabeth Hayes, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Pina Bausch Foundation, and the dancers Tanztheater Wuppertal Beatrice Libonati, Jan Minarik e Mariko Aoyama, who were among the interpreters of the historical edition of the show.
Before the screening of the film, at 19.00 in Guicciardini Biondo Space, It will be opened the photographic exhibition Rubble and stilettos – It fell a wall ... Palermo Palermo 1989-2019, realized in collaboration with the Festival of Orestiadi Gibellina, where it premiered last summer. Piero Tauro, who has followed and photographed for many years the work of Pina Bausch, compares, in a path of a twenty shots, images of historical edition of the show and those made earlier this year in Wuppertal during a recent remake starring young dancers but also by some historians of the Society members. The photographer will be present at the inauguration.
All 19.15, Strehler in the room, you can watch the documentary What moves us – Viewers of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch recall of Rossella Schillaci, presented in Turin on the occasion of the event Marathon Bausch. Dancing memory, rethink the story clean yes Susanne Franco - who will attend the screening - and organized and promoted by Dry Steam / Piedmont Live to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the creation of Café Müller (1978) and pay tribute to Pina Bausch ten years after his death.
The documentary was designed to give an insight into the work of the survival of Pina Bausch in the imagination and in the individual and collective memory of the Italian public and is the result of interviews conducted visual anthropologist Rossella Schillaci with spectators who attended the productions of the Tanztheater Wuppertal in Italy, among which Palermo Palermo. This dramaturgy of many voices is accompanied by rare video images provided by the Pina Bausch Foundation, which houses the original copy of the short film in its digital archive.
In the coming days the dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal Beatrice Libonati e Jan Minarik meet the actors students and alumni "School of the show trades" of the Teatro Biondo directed by Emma Dante for a first meeting to select for a group of performers who next spring will work alongside dancers of the Society of Pina Bausch, first in Palermo and then in Wuppertal, in view of the new production palermoWpalermo, which will debut in the season 2020-2021.
The project, the brainchild of Pamela Villoresi and Palermo Mayor Leoluca Orlando – curated and organized by the Biondo Theater in Palermo and the Pina Bausch Foundation - carries the title of what will be the new show dedicated to the city with which the choreographer had a personal relationship very strong and creative: palermoWpalermo, where "W" stands for Wuppertal, headquarters of the Society of Pina Bausch and her Foundation headed and directed by his son Salomon Bausch, but also to the cry of hope that accompanies devotional ceremonies of the Palermo tradition.
The project will be implemented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Palermo.
"It's been 30 years since the wall Palermo Palermo He collapsed on the stage of the Teatro Biondo breaking silence and isolation, in tune with the reunification of Berlin and the new Renaissance that the City of Palermo undertook with his mayor Leoluca Orlando - explains Pamela Villoresi, director of the Teatro Biondo in Palermo - Today Pina Bausch is no more, but there are his dancers, his employees, his son Salomon, President of Foundation she headed, and above all, there is his work. Bausch The Foundation intends to embark on a new path in which the work of the great choreographer becomes "seed" which shoots in the world. Following the meetings between the mayor Orlando, me, Salomon Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal and employees of the Company, It has established a cultural cooperation between the Foundation and the path of Palermo Blonde. The special project will unfold in stages, that will lead to the preparation of a new edition of the show, a palermoWpalermo It is interpreted by the dancers of the Society of Wuppertal, both Sicilian dancers chosen by the company. It will be the beginning of an artistic journey, which will continue in the next three years and that will bring contemporary dance to the forefront of our theater '.