28th – 30th June (Sunday – Tuesday)

Opera House

NEFÉS, dir. Pina Lausch; Tanztheater Wuppertal

Director and Choreographer: Pina Bausch

Set Design and Videos: Peter Pabst

Costume Design: Marion Cito

Musical Collaboration: Matthias Burkert, Andreas Eisenschneider

Assistants to Director: Marion Cito, Helena Pikon, Robert Sturm

Set Design Assistante: Gerburg Stoffel

Costume Design Assistante: Birgit Stoessel

Ballet Master: Janet Panetta

Stage Manager: Felicitas Willems

Technical Director: Manfred Marcewski

Lighting Director: Fernando Jacon

Lighting Assistants: Jo Verlei, Kerstin Hardt

Sound: Karsten Fischer

Stage Technicians: Dietrich Röder, Martin Winterscheidt

Properties: Jan Szito

Warderobe: Harald Boll, Ulrike Wüsten

Shiatsu Therapist: Ludger Müller

Performers:

Ruth Amarante, Pablo Aran Gimeno, Rainer Behr, Andrey Berezin, Damiano Ottavio Bigi, Silvia Farias Heredia, Ditta Miranda Jasjfi, Nayoung Kim, Daphnis Kokkinos, Thusnelda Mercy, Pascal Merighi, Cristiana Morganti, Nazareth Panadero, Jorge Puerta Armenta, Azusa Seyama, Shantala Shivalingappa, Michael Strecker, Fernando Suels Mendoza, Kenji Takagi, Anna Wehsarg

Music:

Mercan Dede, Birol Topaloglu, Burhan Öçal, Replicas, Bülent Ersoy, Candan Erçetin, Sagye, Suren Asaduryan mit Yansimalar; Amon Tobin, Arild Andersen, Bugge Wesseltoft, Chris McGregor´s Brotherhood of Breath, Dr. Rockit, Plastikman, Elektrotwist, Inner Zone Orchestra, Souad Massi, Astor Piazzolla, Tom Waits, Uhuhboo Project

Performance Rights: Edition L'Arche, Paris

Premiere: 21.03.2003, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

Co-production: International Istanbul Theatre Festival, Istanbul Foundation of Culture and Arts.

We thank our friends in Istanbul especially: Sakir Eczacıbası, Görgün Taner, Dikmen Gürün, Koza Tamdoğan, Ani Haddeler Pekman, Melih Fereli, Gülen İpek Abalı, Emek Abalı, Mehmet Albayrak, Sandra Albukrek, Carlotta Arıkanlı, Hakan Atalah, Ulas Ay, Çelenk Bafra, Murat Belge, Murat Ersan, Nergis Günsenin, Bike Gürsel, Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Figen Isık, Nazlı Karadağ, Haluk Köse, Geyvan Mc Millen, Esra Nilgün Mirze, Nazan Ölçer, Neslisah Sultan and Can Tursan

Water and air are the two interwoven elements in this amazing performance by an artist proclaimed to be the Sara Bernhardt of dance theatre. The performance is called Breath. A new generation of the Tanztheater Wuppertal takes the stage. Their craft reaches for the limits of what can be achieved by a human body in motion. Peter Pabst’s set design is close to ascetic: wooden floor, cascade of water running onto the stage, and two video productions – one showing an ocean, the other a busy street in a city. Male dancers with naked torsos and female dancers in silky costumes tell, through movement, a timeless story of male-female relations.

The performance was created in 2003 in collaboration with the International Theatre Festival in Istanbul and the Istanbul Foundation of the Arts. Music by Turkish composers was used in the production alongside with compositions of Astor Piazolla and Tom Waits.

Tanztheater Wuppertal has come to Poland twice before: in 1987 to Wroclaw for the Open Theatre Festival with Café Müller  and The Rite of Spring, and in 1998 to Warsaw for the International Rozdroze Art Festival with Nelken.

Apart from an opportunity to see this performance in Poland for the first time, audiences at The World as a Place of Truth international theatre festival will have a unique chance to meet the artist. Pina Bausch does not often take part in such meetings.

Duration: 2 hours 50 minutes