Swings between violence and comedy: Pina Bausch’s Kontakthof, at Sadler’s Wells, reviewed

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From magazine issue: 26 February 2022

Bausch's Kontakthof illuminates the convoluted, often rotten thrusts of human desire. Image: Reiner Pfisterer

issue 26 February 2022

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