CITY OF TOKYO / TEN CHI (2004)
Uellendahl-Katernberg district / Domagkweg 46
CITY OF PALERMO / PALERMO PALERMO (1989)
Barmen district / Elberfelder Str. 23
PINA PORTRAIT / CAFE MÜLLER (1978)
Elberfeld district / Bundesallee 221
Juuri (Artist)
The Pina Bausch dance piece TEN CHI from 2004, created on a trip to Tokyo and in co-production with the Saitama Prefecture, Saitama Arts Foundation and the Nippon Cultural Center, meets Japanese artist Juuri from Oklahoma City, whose lively works are inspired by traditional Japanese motifs and painting techniques.
Andrea Buglisi (Artist)
The Pina Bausch dance piece PALERMO PALERMO from 1989, created on a trip to Palermo and in co-production with the Teatro Biondo Stabile, Palermo, and Andres Neumann International, meets Andrea Buglisi from Palermo, who cultivates his very own, collage-like pop art style.
Case Maclaim (Artist)
The Pina Bausch dance piece CAFE MÜLLER from 1978 deals with the complexity of human relationships and the loneliness of the individual. Case Maclaim from Frankfurt was inspired by the photo of the French press journalist Anne-Christine Poujoulat - taken in 1995 during a performance in the south of France.
CITY OF LISBON / MASURCA FOGO (1998)
Elberfeld district / Kasinostr 27 / 16.09. - 24.09.2024
CITY OF SAO PAULO / (2001)
Elberfeld-West district / ??? / 16.09. - 21.09.2024
CITY OF LOS ANGELES / ONLY YOU (1996)
Oberbarmen district / Hügelstr. 7 / 01.10. - 14.10.2024
Tamara Alves (Artist)
L7Matrix (Artist)
El Mac (Artist)
Pina Bausch Gallery WUPPERTAL DANCES
Choose your personal Pina Bausch dance piece for your district
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 DANCES are 10 murals for 10 neighborhoods - 10 dance stories, 10 countries, 10 artists, 10 views and 10 vistas... This is a piece of internationality for every Wuppertal neighborhood, a message of understanding, a performance of the different cultures, captured in movement and transformed into art.
These are the images of a woman who set out to explore movement, to set us in motion.
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.
VOTING WUPPERTAL DANCES - EDITION 2025
You don't know Pina's dance pieces yet? You can get an impression below.
ART MEETS ART
URBAN ART MEETS DANCE ART: THE WORLD THEATER PINA BAUSCH
VIKTOR (1986)
City of Rome
DANCE EVENING II (1991)
City of Madrid
A TRAGEDY (1994)
City of Vienna
O DIDO (1999)
City of Rome
MEADOWLAND (2000)
City of Budapest
THE WINDOW CLEANER (1997)
City of Hong Kong
NEFES (2003)
City of Istanbul
ROUGH CUT (2005)
City of Seoul
BAMBOO BLUES (2007)
City of New Delhi
THE MOSS ON... (2009)
City of Santiago de Chile
Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Support for local businesses
A big thank you goes to the Member of Parliament Helge Lindh and the Pina Bausch Foundation for their support.