Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ‘Sweet Mambo’

19:00 (Thu)  27 November 2025
19:00 (Fri)    28 November 2025
15:00 (Sat)   29  November 2025
15:00 (Sun)  30  November 2025

※Doors open 30 minutes before the performance.
※Latecomers and those who leave during the show will not be guided to their reserved seat.

Approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes (including a 20-minute intermission).

Main Theater, Saitama Arts Theater

 Pina Bausch

Performed by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

Andrey Berezin, Naomi Brito, Nayoung Kim, Daphnis Kokkinos, Reginald Lefebvre / Alexander López Guerra, Héléna Pikon*, Nazareth Panadero*, Julie Shanahan, Julie Anne Stanzak, Aida Vainieri
(* = guests)

Set Design: Peter Pabst
Costumes: Marion Cito
[Restaging]
Artistic Direction: Alan Lucien Øyen
Rehearsal Directors: Azusa Seyama, Robert Sturm

Saitama Arts Theater (Saitama Arts Foundation)

ROHM Theatre Kyoto (Kyoto City Music Art Cultural Promoting Foundation), Kyoto City

The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in the fiscal 2025 | Japan Arts Council

The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Japan

Goethe-Institut Tokyo

<Performance in Kyoto>

19:00 (Fri) 21  November 2025
15:00 (Sat) 22 November 2025
ROHM Theatre Kyoto, Main Hall

075-746-3201（10:00～17:00）

 Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

Born in Germany in 1940, Pina Bausch studied dance with Kurt Jooss at the Folkwang School of the Arts, was invited to join the Wuppertal Ballet as a choreographer in 1971, of which she became artistic director in 1973, and renamed the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Tanztheater Wuppertal has had an enormous impact on the world of performing arts by producing a succession of innovative and groundbreaking works that transcend conventional notions of dance and theater, and by producing numerous international co-productions with a number of countries and cities. Her representative works include “The Rite of Spring”, “Café Müller”, “Kontakthof”, “NELKEN”, and others. In 2009, Pina Bausch’s life journey reached its end.

After the death of Pina Bausch, the Tanztheater Wuppertal  has continued its energetic activities, creating and performing not only Pina Bausch’s works but also new works by other choreographers. Since 1986, the Tanztheater Wuppertal has frequently toured to Japan, making its first appearance at Saitama Arts Theater in 1996 with “The Piece with the Ship”. In 2004, the theater co-produced “Ten Chi”, and has also presented many other Pina Bausch works. This will be the Tanztheater’s  seventh appearance in Saitama.