Pina Bausch – Trailer Script
by frizztext
Movie director Wim Wenders made a new film in 3D about Pina Bausch and her ballet company. PINA Bausch worked in Wuppertal (my hometown), Germany. She died 2009. So this movie became a tribute to her life-long engagement.
Chronology of the trailer fragments as featured at youtube, analyzed and translated by frizztext:
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:10 group dance: Dance, if not, you are lost
- 0:14 theater, men grabbing at frightened woman
- 0:18 falling / trust / couple
- 0:20 running uphill
- 0:26 LOVE, street in Wuppertal-Barmen with Schwebebahn
- 0:34 LIBERTY, jumping from a rock
- 0:36 FIGHT, bound with a lasso
- 0:39 LONGING, yearning: she carries him on her back + red dressed girl with a tree on head
- 0:44 JOY, stunt on a chair
- 0:47 DESPAIR, scene in a coal-mine
- 0:50 RECONCILIATION, glass architecture near Muengsten Bridge
- 0:53 BEAUTY, coral + black couple
- 0:58 POWER, Asian red dressed woman + men in black trousers on Schwebebahn station, Wuppertal-Oberbarmen
- 1:10 dancing in abandoned industry area Zeche Zollverein
- 1:18 weeping woman with the red dress of a woman who is dead (PINA)
- 1:26 running through water
- 1:31 monorail Schwebebahn leaving the main station “Döppersberg”
- 1:39 THE END
“Seasons march”:
IS THERE A FRAGMENT YOU WOULD LIKE TO MENTION? WHICH TOUCHED YOUR HEART???
Related Articles
- Pina Bausch – Profile (telegraph.co.uk)
- Pina – review (guardian.co.uk)
- Culture in 3-D (tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Pina (bristolculture.wordpress.com)
- Pina – review (guardian.co.uk)
- Pina (U) (independent.co.uk)
- Wim Wenders – PINA World Premiere (imaginatioetratio.org)
- Film Weekly podcast: Wim Wenders’ dance with Pina (guardian.co.uk)
- Pina – review (guardian.co.uk)
- PINA — a 3D Documentary Film by Wim Wenders (3quarksdaily.com)
- Pina Bausch – “Dance, Dance, otherwise we are lost” (sophiansiren.wordpress.com)
- Pina Bausch company carries on with ‘Danzón’ (sfgate.com)
- Pina Bausch’s spirit lives on in her work inspired by Cuba’s Danzón (repeatingislands.com)
- Pina Bausch – “Dance, Dance … otherwise we are lost” (sophiansiren.wordpress.com)
- Wim Wenders on U2, 3D and Pina (sundancenow.com)
- Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Viktor & Nur Du, Seven magazine review (telegraph.co.uk)
- MoveTube special: Pina Bausch’s dance career in clips (guardian.co.uk)
- Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Ten Chi – review (guardian.co.uk)
- Pina Bausch Series ‘World Cities’ in London 2012 Festival (nytimes.com)
- Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch; The Prince of the Pagodas – review (guardian.co.uk)
- Pina Bausch’s World Cities dance series is ‘sheer magic’ (theweek.co.uk)
- Inspired by PINA (judithaross.com)
- Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Viktor, Sadler’s Wells, review (telegraph.co.uk)

Didn’t you show this yesterday? I thought I saw it on your blog. She was an amazing artist… truly great!
Eliz
yes, but today I analyzed the chronology
- you cannot find this anywhere else in the net …
0:00 Intro
0:10 group dance: Dance, if not, you are lost
0:14 theater, men grabbing at frightened woman
0:18 falling / trust / couple
0:20 running uphill
0:26 LOVE, street in Wuppertal-Barmen with Schwebebahn
0:34 LIBERTY, jumping from a rock
0:36 FIGHT, bound with a lasso
0:39 LONGING, yearning: she carries him on her back + red dressed girl with a tree on head
0:44 JOY, stunt on a chair
0:47 DESPAIR, scene in a coal-mine
0:50 RECONCILIATION, glass architecture near Muengsten Bridge
0:53 BEAUTY, coral + black couple
0:58 POWER, Asian red dressed woman + men in black trousers on Schwebebahn station, Wuppertal-Oberbarmen
1:10 dancing in abandoned industry area Zeche Zollverein
1:18 weeping woman with the red dress of a woman who is dead (PINA)
1:26 running through water
1:31 monorail Schwebebahn leaving the main station “Döppersberg”
1:39 THE END
definitely a-must-see… I missed on the festival. Now I will see it in a different venue.
Bravo, Frizztext, Bravo. I love Pina Bausch. She is my all time favorite choreographer. The first performance I saw of her Tantztheatre Wuppertal was “Ths Seven Deadly Sins” in NYC in 1987. Since then I have seen “Two Cigarettes in the Dark” and many others performances. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Walter
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compare the movie poster, embedded in reality:

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more information about pina bausch at https://sophiansiren.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/pina-bausch-dance/
https://sophiansiren.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/pina-bausch-dance/
http://stulanglaut.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/%E9%9B%B2%E9%96%80%E8%88%9E%E9%9B%86%E9%A6%96%E6%AC%A1%E4%BE%86%E9%A6%AC%E4%BE%86%E8%A5%BF%E4%BA%9E%E6%BC%94%E5%87%BA-cloud-gate-dance-theatre-songs-of-the-wanderers-first-tour-to-malaysia/#comment-16
in Pina Bausch’s movie often is a background music
similar to an old funeral performance of Kid Ory:
Lonnie Johnson
Jet Black Blues 1929
Hello: Thank you so much for this post. I loved the movie too. I am actually looking for all the ‘character-generated’ quotes (text) that appeared on screen throughout the movie, for a dance-related project I am writing. Do you know where these might be available? Thank you!
maybe one should write to the Wuppertal Dance Theater – still working I believe …
no Oscar for “Pina”
http://wissen.dradio.de/nachrichten.59.de.html?drn:news_id=65862
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Awesome! And thank you for the chronology, makes it easier to grasp!