The Critics: Sansom on Bausch's Kontakthof ?

[Guest grace]

sorry to disappoint you, but i know nothing about this! ;)

 

that's why i'm posting - to maybe hear some information from anyone who HAS read this article in the new issue of DANCE NOW.... - mind sharing a bit?

 

also in this SPRING 2003 issue (apparently):

 

Jonathan Cope in conversation with Debra Craine

The legendary Olga Spessivtseva by Jane Simpson

Relationships in Mayerling by Jann Parry

Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! by Keith Watson

Mark Morris in Britain by Jenny Gilbert

Twyla Tharp on Broadway by Allen Robertson

Violette Verdy in conversation with Gia Kourlas

Scènes de Ballet by John Percival

Pina Bausch's Kontaktof by Bruce Sansom

 

it all sounds interesting.

[Alexandra]

I haven't gotten my copy now, so we're dependent on our British posters for comment.

 

It is a very interesting magazine, Grace

[Jane Simpson]

grace, is it Kontakthof you want to hear about, or Bruce Sansom's review of it?

[Guest grace]

was just curious to hear his views on such an unlikely subject!

 

for starters i didn't know it was a review, so you have already told me something!

 

i thought it could have been some sort of reflective article on bausch's style, ...or something like that.

 

when in england, i used to get a historical magazine that came out through dancebooks, from a dance history society - that was very good, quite academic...but i think it had a different title. i'll have a look later...

[Guest grace]

have just checked: the mag i used to get in england was called Dance Research...

[Guest grace]

i will delete this thread in a week or so if there aren't any responses, as seems likely ...

[Jane Simpson]

grace, it's quite a long review of Kontakthof, which was shown in London earlier this season. Kontakthof, as you probably know, is the work in which all the performers are over 65, with no previous stage experience, and it's particularly interesting to read the feelings of a dancer watching untrained bodies.

 

It's the third piece Bruce Sansom has done for DanceNow - he wrote about Requiem in a recent issue foucsing on the works of Kenneth macMillan, and also a long piece on his experience of working in America with San Francisco Ballet and at the Vilar Institute for Arts Management.

[Guest grace]

thanks for that info, jane. i imagine that all these articles would be of interest, but especially the SF one, and as you say, the dancer's responses to viewing old and untrained bodies in performance. thank you very much for following through on this thread.