Tag Archives: Pina Bausch

The Seagull – Stage Russia – Satirikon Theatre, Moscow

Pushkin House, London ****
(filmed and recorded before a live audience at Satirikon Theatre, Moscow)

© Ekaterina Tsvetkova, Satirikon company, ensemble of the highest order, Act 2

© Ekaterina Tsvetkova, Satirikon company, ensemble of the highest order, Act 2

What extraordinary actors the Russians produce and what a revelation is this newly filmed version by Moscow’s Satirikon Theatre uncomfortable, disturbing, unsettling though it also is. Continue reading

Late Night

Barbican Theatre, The PIt (*****) – LIFT 2016

© Vassilis Makris, Blitz Theatre Group in Late Night

© Vassilis Makris, Blitz Theatre Group in Late Night

Imagine the hypnotic purity of a Pina Bausch, the despair of They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, the American film where exhausted dancers during the American 1932 Depression circle endlessly. Add the musical melancholy of a Jacques Brel type song. Then imagine it all transferred to the context of Europe and Greece in the grip of austerity since the economic collapse of 2008.  Continue reading