Spanish premiere Country:Germany Approx duration: 3 hr. (with interval)
Hands feel, legs drag themselves, life goes by, time runs away, dance takes to the air and frees us
- Daniel Conrod, Télérama
Kontakthof (which means meeting place and, by extension, a brothel), was first premiered in 1978 with the dancers of the Tanztheater Wuppertal. In the year 2000, Pina Bausch took up the work again - but this time with a cast made up of men and women all over the age of 65.
Bausch (the creator of legendary titles such as Café Müller, Nefés and Palermo Palermo) immerses us in a nostalgic world which examines in depth the need to feel loved. Transgression, eroticism and tenderness come together in a work which one critic described as "cruel and moving at the same time".
In the background, the music of Charlie Chaplin, Anton Karas, Juan Llossas, Nino Rota and Jean Sibelius.