BALLET2000 English Edition Magazine

This issue’s cover story is dedicated to the great German choreographer Pina Bausch, 80 years on from her birth and 10 from her death, on the occasion of a recent revival – first in Wuppertal, then in London, afterwards on tour – of Blaubart, a work from 1977.
Leonetta Bentivoglio, an unrivalled specialist on Bausch’s oeuvre, discusses Bluebeard and paints a living portrait of Pina’s work. Our cover photo hasn’t been chosen from a selection of a repertoire photos; it’s a photo from Bausch’s final creation, Como el musguito en la piedra, ay, sí sí sí... It was taken in Santiago de Chile in 2009, a few months after the choreographer passed away, by Ninni Romeo, an inspired photographer who was also a devoted friend of Pina and of the Wuppertal company. Smiling and with an impish twinkle in her eye, the dancer strikes an alluring pose: who knows who that coffee is for, or where she is going. This was Pina’s world and perhaps it’s still ours as well in these extraordinary times – twenty years later.