This week, it's all about Pina Bausch. In fact, the same could be said about this month... but that's for a separate post.


Pina Bausch: Viktor (Rome) - 6 & 7 June
Sadler's Wells
Tickets & details (returns only): www.sadlerswells.com/show/Pina-Bausch-World-Cities-2012-Viktor
Duration: 3 hours 30 mins (1 interval)

The season of Pina Bausch's World Cities 2012, featuring works inspired by residencies in 10 cities around the world opens with Viktor, a co-production with Teatro Argentina. It is accompanied by a combination of symphonic music, folk tunes and music composed for social dancing - from the Middle Ages to the Jazz Age, and is a humorous exploration of human pain and neurosis.


Pina Bausch: Nur Du (Los Angeles) - 9 & 10 June
Barbican Centre
Tickets & details (returns only): www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=12363
Duration: 3 hours 20 mins (1 interval)

Nur Du is a theatrical collage of fragmentary scenes with movement and speech accompanied by pop recordings from the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s while musing over the Californian obsession with perfect bodies and the dancers are constantly scrutinising their own bodies - being either pleased or appalled by what they see.


Colin, Simon & I: 8 June
The Place
Tickets & details: www.theplace.org.uk/12736/whats-on/colin-simon-i.html

Because We Care is about two men testing the bonds and limits of relationships. It asks what draws them together, what unites them and what forces them apart. It is a dance that challenges their commitment, a soundtrack that speaks of loss, a film touched by laughter and a stage set with objects no one should take for granted.


Threads & Watkins Dance: 8 June
Rich Mix
Tickets & details: www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/confines-forget-me-not

Threads, shortlisted for our last festival, presents an updated version of (confines), a brooding piece exam-ining real and perceived barriers. Choreographed by Elizabeth Peck in collaboration with dance lighting designer Anthony Hateley, (confines) is a visually powerful work which explores the notion of confinement and that one can be imprisoned by their own perception of self.

Forget-me-not is a tribute by choreographer Anna Watkins to her late mother, telling the emotive story of Anna's journey both through and after the death of a remarkable and intelligent woman.