AUSTRIAN PREMIERE
In cooperation with SZENE BUNTE WÄHNE Tanzfestival

Production, choreography: Pina Bausch Stage design, costume: Rolf Borzik Collaboration: Rolf Borzik, Marion Cito, Hans Pop Rehearsal director, production: Bénédicte Billiet, Josephine Ann Endicott Costumes according to the conception of Rolf Borzik: Marion Cito Costume assistance: Svea Kossak Music: Charlie Chaplin, Anton Karas, Juan Llossas, Nino Rota, Jean Sibelius u.a. Technical direction: Manfred Marczewski Light: Jo Verlei Sound: Karsten Fischer Technic: Martin Winterscheidt Followspot: Kerstin Hardt Wardrobe: Marika Müller, Birgit Stössel, Harald Boll Mask: Roswitha Sewing Stage manager: Felicitas Willems


Kontakthof is a place where you meet
to find contact.
Show yourself, refuse.
With fears. With desires.
Disappointments. Despairs.
First experiences. First attempts.
(Pina Bausch)

Kontakthof is a meeting place, a place of elementary human feelings. In the empty ballroom, designed by Rolf Borzik, Pina Bausch observes and explores her protagonists and develops her poetic and powerful image and movement language, which has made her one of the most influential international choreographers of the 20th century. Kontakthof has already been premièred, in 1978 by the Tanztheater Wuppertal, and in November 2008 had a première in the version For Teenagers Over '14', in which 26 young people contribute their very own experiences and tell stories of  approaches and affection, of injuries and rejection. 'It is a world theatre that does not lecture or know better, but produces the experiences: happy or sad, gentle or confrontational, but always funny and bizarre.' (Norbert Servos)

With the support of Wiener Linien and Austria Trend Hotels & Resorts

Stage rights: L`Arche Editeur Paris
Premiere 1978

Version with teenagers 2008:
Flutura Ajvazi, Bastian Bastian, Kira Clemens, Anna Lena Dresia, Maria Färber, Marvin George, Luca Greco, Lisa Hymmen, Pia Jansen, Soeren Keup, Lisa Kleinschmidt, Jonas Kosmoll, Lydia Kumi, Kim Lörken, Katja Manke, Ben Pfennig, Lennard Pfennig, Dawid Podkidacz, Jonas Quatuor, Melissa Raucamp, Mona Remfort, Ramona Rexfort, Frederike Schmidt, Katharina Schüler, Rosario Tavano, Andy Sichui, Moritz Winkelmann, Florian Wisnewski, Joy Wonnenberg

In cooperation with schools from Wuppertal:
Carl-Fuhlrott Grammar School, Comprehensive School Barmen, Comprehensive School Else-Lasker-Schüler, Comprehensive School Erich-Fried Ronsdorf, Comprehensive School Langerfeld, Comprehensive School Vohwinkel, Grammar School Bayreuther Straße, Secondary Modern School Hügelstraße, Rudolf-Steiner-School, St. Anna Grammar School, Grammar School of the city Reichenbach-Ennepetal, Berufskolleg Am Kothen und Gesamtschule Köln-Holweide

We want to thank the teachers, who accompany us during this guest performance: Cornelia Adlung, Claus Baermann, Dorothea Block