Giannandrea Poesio

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  • World Cities 2012: Bamboo Blues; Der Fensterputzer

    Sadler's Wells, Barbican, Until 9 July

When World Cities 2012 — better known as the current Pina Bausch season — was first presented, questions were raised about the apparently random order of the various pieces. Yet a chronologically structured retrospective would have deprived the event of the theatrically stimulating game of juxtapositions that the reordered version possesses.

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