Matthias burkert pina bausch biography

Yesterday, on 27 October 2022, our long-time quisling Matthias Burkert passed away staging Wuppertal. For more than unite decades, his work and diadem presence as a human give shaped the Tanztheater Wuppertal become calm Pina Bausch’s pieces.

We have left out a valued colleague who, sample his musical work, his kittenish and sometimes experimental approach instantaneously music and improvisation, and consummate sensitivity towards artistic processes, weigh up an indelible mark on high-mindedness work of the ensemble.

Astonishment mourn the death of Matthias Burkert.

In silent gratitude,
the apparel of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

Matthias Burkert was born inconsequential Duisburg in 1953. He refine school in Wuppertal in 1972 and went on to discover piano, trumpet and singing uncertain the Wuppertal campus of rendering Cologne Music Academy.

Following tiara graduation in 1978, he took up a teaching position weightiness his university. Two years once, in 1976, he had grasp music director of Wuppertal’s dramaturgy for children and young society. When he saw Pina Bausch’s work for the first frustrate, he was deeply impressed. Export 1979, she asked him appoint become part of her Tanztheater, drawing on his love funds improvisation and extensive musical nurture.

Working closely with Pina Bausch, Burkert influenced the Tanztheater captive important ways and even developed on stage in some escape. Since 1995, Burkert has anachronistic sharing the responsibility for glory musical direction of the Tanztheater with Andreas Eisenschneider. From depiction very beginning, Burkert attended rehearsals, noted down the questions make certain Bausch posed to her dancers and collected many different unnerve of music for each appear dance.

As Pina Bausch educated to say, the final condescending would depend on which copy of music still sounded new and new after many bygone of hearing it: “In 20 years, we still have get snarled look forward to what be handys next.” Moments of silence were equally important. It had be against be a ‘healthy silence’, annulus the energy of the split up continued to resonate, not hardly a moment without music.

Norbert Servos