WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Palermo Palermo
Masterpiece of contemporary dance transcends frontiers
CROSSING DIVIDES: Tanztheater Wuppertal
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
ORIGINALLY performed in 1989, Palermo Palermo was filmed soon afterwards and now, digitally remastered, it reconnects with the neoexpressionist form of dance known as Tanztheater which German dancer, choreographer and director Pina Bausch so brilliantly realised.
An artwork of immense originality, it evokes the lifestyle and atmosphere of the Sicilian city and marked the beginning of Bausch’s obsession with dance as travelogue.
Ceaselessly creative, it captures the nuances of human life set against a backdrop of relentless decay and fruitless power struggles.
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