Club Amour

Club Amour description

Pina Bausch’s legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal returns to captivate Adelaide audiences after sell-out seasons of The Rite of Spring / common ground[s] in the 2022 Festival and Nelken in 2016.

Club Amour unites two icons of the dance world – Pina Bausch, “high priestess of dance” (The Guardian), and Boris Charmatz, a trailblazer of French contemporary dance and the current artistic director of Tanztheater Wuppertal – for a triptych of groundbreaking works dedicated to love and desire.

Pina Bausch’s Café Müller is one of the most influential dance pieces of the 20th century. Combining the brilliance of the legendary German choreographer with the beauty of Henry Purcell’s greatest arias, the masterpiece has its Australian premiere.

It is paired with two works from Boris Charmatz’s repertoire, both of which will be experienced by audiences on the Festival Theatre stage. Audience members will be invited to sit or stand on the stage, taking in the performances from a vantage point of their choosing. In Aatt enen tionon, his radical choreographic work from 1996, dancers are isolated over three elevated platforms, while in herses, duo two dancers are tangled closely together, their naked bodies never leaving one another. The striking choreography of all three works is expertly performed by some of the world’s best dancers from Tanztheater Wuppertal and Terrain.

A tribute to the enduring genius of Pina Bausch and the innovation of Boris Charmatz, this is a program not to be missed.

Few have ever mastered the alchemy of conjuring a viscerally charged performance space as expertly as the late, great Pina Bausch.

- Limelight

The most lyrical, painful and beautiful thing I’d ever seen.

- The Guardian (on Café Müller)