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DCW at Hammer Museum
Saturday, June 16, 7 pm
Pina Bausch on Screen
10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310-443-7000; www.hammer.ucla.edu)
- FREE admission, no reservations required; seating is first come first served
 Dance Camera West presents two U.S. film premieres featuring German choreographer Pina Bausch and her acclaimed company Tanztheatre Wuppertal Pina Bausch. A master of transformative theater, Bausch’s surreal stagings and incomparable brand of neoexpressionist dance have made her one of the greatest dance artists of the last 40 years.
Because Bausch has collected and taken out of public circulation much of the footage about her, there are very few films documenting the work of this maverick artist. For the 2007 festival, Dance Camera West has chosen two from only five films approved by Bausch for viewing.
Director Christiane Gibiec’s 1998 documentary Daz Tanztheater der Pina Bausch offers a rare glimpse of Pina Bausch. Made for German television by WDR, Gibiec’s film documents Bausch’s life and work from the 1970’s through the 1990’s.
In a lush and illuminating contrast with Gibiec’s more conventional film, the recently released 52 minute version of Coffee with Pina (2006) chronicles Israeli filmmaker and visual artist Lee Yanor’s ongoing 12 year dialogue with Bausch. The result is a wildly impressionistic collage of video and 8mm footage that presents an intimate portrait of Bausch and reveals an engaging and talkative side of the usually shy artist through a series of candid conversations. Included in this film are excerpts from Bausch works such as Agua (filmed in Paris in 2003) and Rough Cut (Wuppertal, 2005).
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