The fascinating contrasts and complexities of Brazil form the inspiration for Água. A joyous homage to a paradise of swaying palm trees, sultry jungles and stalking leopards from one of the greatest artists of the 21st century.
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During a long and distinguished career, the great German choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in June 2009, helped to redefine the parameters of contemporary dance with a unique and highly idiosyncratic brew of classical movement, burlesque humour and overt theatricality. Pina Bausch was quite simply an extraordinary force of creative energy.
In Água, her charismatic and eclectic company of dancers transports you from beach to rainforest and then back again in a playful work brimming with joie de vivre. Complete with kissing competitions, dancers illuminated by fairy lights and men and women splashing each other with water bottles like kids on the beach, Água exemplifies all that is best in Pina Bausch's profound and playful brand of dance theatre.
Positively zings with vibrant joie-de-vivre.
A deliciously exuberant, untrammelled ease of self-expression.
Works such as this serve to remind us what a rare genius the dance world lost last year.
It is as if you have been on holiday in their company.
Agua lifts whenever the characters start interacting with each other.
Agua has the messy vitality of life; few choreographers are capable of offering us that much.
Pina Bausch's Tanztheatre Wuppertal to run at Edinburgh Festival
Feature: Dance company Tanztheatre Wuppertal
Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh from Friday August 27, 2010, until Sunday August 29, 2010. 7.30pm. More info: www.edinburghplayhouse.org.uk