"Pina Bausch had a pair of secret weapons in Matthias Burkert and Andreas Eisenschneider, who jointly sought out music to match her uncanny dance-theatre and make it so indelible. In Sweet Mambo, the German choreographer's 2008 production for Tanztheater Wuppertal, their eclectic compilation complements the seductive elegance of set designer Peter Pabst's huge, billowing white drapes and the sumptuous gowns provided by Marion Cito."
"Track by track, an entrancing through-line is found in Sami joiking, torch song, folk, electronica and ambient music. The mix extends to the unclassifiable party sound of Hazmat Modine's Bahamut, harmonicas and tuba boosting a late burst of loosey-goosey abandon from dancer Daphnis Kokkinos while his colleagues are wrapped and spun upside down in those curtains. Pop art poses Julie Shanahan, centre, with Daphnis Kokkinos and Alexander Lopez Guerra."
Pina Bausch's Sweet Mambo pairs eclectic music selections by Matthias Burkert and Andreas Eisenschneider with Peter Pabst's billowing white drapes and Marion Cito's sumptuous gowns. The score moves through Sami joiking, torch song, folk, electronica and ambient textures, and reaches playful abandon in Hazmat Modine's Bahamut, amplified by harmonicas and tuba. Naomi Brito opens with a golden singing bowl drawing Andrey Berezin onstage; women's solos often convey inner stillness and hammock drift. Harrowing episodes center on Julie Shanahan, whose pop-art poses shift to supernatural malevolence and repetitive, entrapping interactions with men. Some sequences with Julie Anne Stanzak lag.
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