Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Vollmond (Full moon)

The events are sold out. Dance House Helsinki brings for the first time to Finland the masterpiece by iconic Pina Bausch! Oscillating between cruel, ambivalent violence in the relationships between the sexes and more melancholy scenarios driven by longing, the dancers in Full Moon penetrate the depths of their imaginary, conscious and subconscious worlds. At times driven, hurling themselves around the space in the most dangerous ways, at others almost somnambulatory and fragile, tenderly as if in a dream, they brave the challenges of Peter Pabst’s stage set. It is a tribute to the power of water – or nature? The elements? They run through ankle-deep water, swim across the moat underneath the tall rock, slide, jump, crash against walls and dance wildly in Marion Cito’s long dresses, which become completely drenched in water. They shiver in the cold, slip, give it their all – and then say with a wink: “I It’s full moon - you won’t get drunk”.