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Bluebeard review " Pina Bausch's punishing portrait of marital misery by Lyndsey Winship

Sadler's Wells, LondonSet to Bartók's opera, the bloody myth becomes a bleak battle of the sexes where we can never quite tell right from wrong Pina Bausch was of the "hell is other people" school of thought. In her work, anyway. Specifically, she was interested in the miseries visited upon each other by men and women. Her dancers are frequently locked in unwinnable partnerships and her 1977 take on the Bluebeard …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 3:03pm on February 13, 2020

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