Body language dynamics in "Pina Bausch. Lissabon Wuppertal Lisbon"

Abstract

Fernando Lopes is the director of Pina Bausch. Lissabon Wuppertal Lisbon. In 1997, when Pina Bausch was in Lisbon for a three-week 'artistic residence', Fernando Lopes accompanied the creative process. During this period, the Portuguese director recorded on video, in a documentary work that he would come to call Pina Bausch. Lissabon Wuppertal Lisbon (1998), the contributions and reactions of a group of artists that would integrate the cast of Masurca Fogo (1998) - piece that Pina Bausch created from that residency and that was premiered in Lisbon, in May 1998, on the occasion of the Expo 100 Days Festival. It is a work developed from the contributions of the actor-dancers and the actress-dancers, through a language that uses the body as a mediator, of which we will show some examples.