Ballet Flanders gets rights to Bausch masterpiece
Royal Ballet Flanders becomes the first company in the world to get the rights to perform Pina Bausch’s Café Müller
World premiere
Café Müller features six dancers on a set decorated with tables, chairs and a revolving glass door. They dance to arias from the Henry Purcell operas The Fairy-Queen and Dido and Aeneas.
The company’s dancers are currently rehearsing, both at home in Antwerp and in Wuppertal. The work will be performed next May in Ghent and Antwerp as part of the production Hope, which features three female choreographers: Bausch, Martha Graham and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa.
The ballet’s next production, however, is Spartacus, which premieres next month. Because of the complicated set design, the production will run only in Antwerp.
Photo: Tanztheater Wuppertal perform Café Müller in Antwerp in 2009
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About the author
Lisa Bradshaw is the editor-in-chief of Flanders Today. She worked as an editor and journalist in her homeland, the United States, before moving to the awesome city of Ghent in 2004. If she’s not in the office, she’s probably at a film festival.
