WUPPERTAL DANCES MURALS
16 murals for 10 districts - 10 dance stories, 6 portraits, 12 countries, 16 artists, 16 views and 16 vistas
EDITION 2025 - WORK DONE
EDITION 2024 - WORK DONE
Pina Bausch Gallery WUPPERTAL DANCES
WUPPERTAL TANZT is a homage to the dance choreographer Pina Bausch in the public space of the city of Wuppertal and deals with her 15 international dance co-productions and has them individually interpreted by urban artists from the respective co-production cities in the public space of the city of Wuppertal.
WUPPERTAL TANZT are 10 murals for 10 districts - 10 dance stories, 10 countries, 10 artists, 10 views and 10 perspectives... This is a piece of internationality for every district of Wuppertal, a message of understanding, a presentation of different cultures, captured in movement and transformed into art.
Pina's idea behind her international co-productions was to try to absorb the feeling of a city and its intangible atmosphere and transform it into movement. We want to continue spinning these danced "city identities" in public space: International UrbanArt artists are invited to be inspired by the "Welttheater Pina Bausch" and the international co-productions (15 pieces in total) and to implement them as murals in the urban space of the 10 districts of Wuppertal. The UrbanArt artists come from the cities of the dance co-productions: The cultural coloring of the dance art should be reflected in the cultural coloring of the wall art.
Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Support for local businesses
A big thank you goes to the member of the Bundestag Helge Lindh and the Pina Bausch Foundation for their support.