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Pina Bausch – Café Müller, Tanztheater Wuppertal (Photo Ulli Weiss) |
Pina Bausch was a renowned choreographer who experiment with emotional based shows rather than skill based shows, at a young age she leaned ballet but when she worked with a dance teacher named Kurt Jooss at the Folkwang School in Essen, Jooss focused more on the free spirited nature of dance whilst also using the fundamental rules of classical Ballet.
Pina grew up during a time of war and fear and she loved to bleed her experience and emotions during that difficult time in her life into her pieces of work, this again was inspired by her old teacher Jooss, who was renowned for being a liberal, free thinking individual who did many pieces on Anti-war most notably his Green table piece.
At the age of 19 Pina worked in New York as part of a student exchange programme, she worked in the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and the New American Ballet, but she said it was the atmosphere of New York that gave her an idea of what she wanted to do in her life. Bausch, 2004 said that "New York gave me a feeling of freedom, there is where I found myself"
She later returned to Germany and worked on many piece that were extremely useful to my performance, my group to a large amount of inspiration from her piece Café Müller, the raw emotion and physical exhaustion brought on in the piece is such an experience and it is a great display of Pina's love of including childhood experiences into a piece.
Café Müller is a performance based on Pinas childhood it is filled with the openness the Bausch's work was renowned for it leaves it's self open for interpretations and that is an aspect we wanted to engrain deeply into our performance.
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