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Palermo Palermo
Masterpiece of contemporary dance transcends frontiers
CROSSING DIVIDES: Tanztheater Wuppertal
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
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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