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In this program, you will have the extraordinary opportunity to fully immerse yourself in Pina Bausch's most praised works and choreographic language with former dancers of the Thanztheater Wuppertal company.
During 6 days, you will study and explore every aspect of Pina's works and creation process, with props and accessories. This program combines a workshop and an intensive driven by research, development and details on the creations processes.
This is a perfect opportunity to learn more about Pina Bausch's broadly acclaimed works.
You will work under the direction and mentorship of Bénédicte Billiet and Scott Jennings from Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Company.
This program is designed in close collaboration with the Pina Bausch Foundation.
December 15th - 20th, 2025
10 A.M. – 11 A.M. Warm-up.
11 A.M. – 1 P.M. Repertoire Study: "Rite Of Spring"
1 P.M. – 2 P.M. Lunch Break
2 P.M. – 4 P.M. Repertoire Study "Kontakthof"
Accommodation
We can propose accommodations to our partner Eden Studio Guest Villas, see further details on this page
Schedule
About Bénédicte Billiet
Bénédicte Billiet was born in 1954 in Lille (France). After finishing her Ballet studies at the Conservatoire National de Paris, she entered the Ballet de Lyon in 1972. Having worked there for three years, she returned to Paris in 1975 and followed the classes of Peter Goss, who later engaged her in his company. She then danced in the first company of Dominique Bagouet and with other French choreographers, until Pina Bausch engaged her in 1981 in her Wuppertaler Tanztheater. More
Application Requirements
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All Applicants must be professional or pre-professional dancers, movers, or performers, with a minimum age of 18 years old.
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You must provide a maximum of 1-minute video link (Vimeo or Youtube) of your dancing either improvising or choreographed solo. No group piece. No Instagram or Facebook link.
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A full detailed resume is to be uploaded (max 15Mb) or via a weblink (google drive, website, etc...)
Acceptance
Within 2 days after receiving your application form, we will send our response via email and the further steps to join us in this program.
About Scott Jennings
Born in England in 1988, Scott found a love for the arts at a young age. He began his training in dance and theatre at The BRIT School and then went onto study at London Contemporary Dance School, graduating in 2009. Scott has worked extensively as a performer with some of the world’s leading dance and theatre makers including Lloyd Newson, Dimitris Papaioannou, Robert Wilson and Maxine Doyle, to name a few. He spent six years as a member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, performing Bausch’s eclectic repertoire worldwide. More
About Pina Bausch
Born July 27th, 1940 into a publican family in Solingen, she discovered her love of dance at an early age and joined children’s ballet classes where her talent was recognised. In 1955 she began a professional dance education at the Folkwang School in Essen, led by Kurt Jooss, a pioneer of the revolutionary 1920s/30s German movement Ausdruckstanz (‘expressive dance’), completing the course in 1959. The most important values she took from her work with Jooss were ‘honesty and precision’, as she later put it: honesty in approaching reality and precision in developing form. After two years in New York, initially with a scholarship for the renowned Juilliard School of Music, then as a dancer at the New American Ballet and at the Metropolitan Opera House Ballet, she returned to Essen in 1962 on Jooss’ request as a soloist at the newly founded Folkwang Dance Studio. Here she worked with Jooss, Antony Tudor, Lucas Hoving, Hans Züllig and above all Jean Cébron. At the end of the 1960s she gained attention with her first choreographies, including Im Wind der Zeit (‘in the wind of time’), for which she won first prize in the Cologne choreography competition. More
Photo: Wilfried Krüger
