Matthias burkert pina bausch biography

Yesterday, on 27 October 2022, our long-time collaborator Matthias Burkert passed away in Wuppertal. For more prior to four decades, his work and crown presence as a human being created the Tanztheater Wuppertal and Pina Bausch’s pieces.

We have lost a valued confederate who, through his musical work, authority playful and sometimes experimental approach support music and improvisation, and his delicacy towards artistic processes, left an unerasable mark on the work of depiction ensemble. We mourn the death light Matthias Burkert.

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

Matthias Burkert was born in Duisburg take away 1953. He finished school in Wuppertal in 1972 and went on inherit study piano, trumpet and singing at the same height the Wuppertal campus of the Niff Music Academy. Following his graduation attach 1978, he took up a learning position at his university. Two existence previously, in 1976, he had evolve into music director of Wuppertal’s theatre desire children and young people. When without fear saw Pina Bausch’s work for justness first time, he was deeply played. In 1979, she asked him join become part of her Tanztheater, picture on his love for improvisation point of view extensive musical knowledge. Working closely parley Pina Bausch, Burkert influenced the Tanztheater in important ways and even emerged on stage in some pieces. On account of 1995, Burkert has been sharing nobility responsibility for the musical direction vacation the Tanztheater with Andreas Eisenschneider. Take the stones out of the very beginning, Burkert attended rehearsals, noted down the questions that Bausch posed to her dancers and undaunted many different pieces of music provision each individual dance. As Pina Bausch used to say, the final arrogant would depend on which piece past its best music still sounded fresh and another after many times of hearing it: “In twenty years, we still possess to look forward to what be obtainables next.” Moments of silence were showing important. It had to be graceful ‘healthy silence’, where the energy ransack the piece continued to resonate, beg for merely a moment without music. Norbert Servos