Director and Choreographer Pina Bausch
Set Design Peter Pabst
Costume Design Marion Cito
Dramatic Advisor Dramaturgie Raimund Hoghe
Collaboration Hans Pop, Klaus Morgenstern
Duration 3h 35min
Besetzung der Uraufführung: Anne Marie Benati, Lutz Förster, Mechthild Großmann, Hans Dieter Knebel, Ed Kortlandt, Mari DiLena, Beatrice Libonati, Anne Martin, Jan Minarik, Vivienne Newport, Nazareth Panadero, Isabel Ribas Serra, Arthur Rosenfeld, Monika Sagon, Jean-Laurent Sasportes, Janusz Subicz, Meryl Tankard, Heide Tegeder,
Magicien Ralf John Ernesto
Violin Arthur Sockel
Athlete at the bar Max Walther
Besetzung 2012: Regina Advento , Ruth Amarante, Mechthild Großmann, Lutz Förster, Barbara Kaufmann, Ditta Miranda Jasjfi/Cristiana Morganti, Daphnis Kokkinos, Eddie Martinez, Nazareth Panadero, Helena Pikon, Jean-Laurent Sasportes, Franko Schmidt, Azusa Seyama, Julie Shanahan, Julie Anne Stanzak, Michael Strecker, Fernando Suels Mendoza, Aida Vainieri, Tsai-Chin Yu
Zauberkünstler: Reiner Roth
Geiger: Herbert Jacobs
Am Barren: Peter Sandhoff
Harmonium: Ed Kortlandt
Music John Dowland, John Wilson, Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Francis Lai, Benny Goodman, Comedian Harmonists …
Premiere 18 Mai 1980, Schauspielhaus Wuppertal
International Engagements/Tours
1981 Cologne,Germany; Avignon, France 1982 Vienna, Austria; Rome, Italy; Melbourne, Adelaide, Australia; London, England 1983 Milan, Venice, Italy; Hamburg, Stuttgart, Germany 1984 America-Tour: Los Angeles, New York, Toronto; Stockholm, Sweden 1985 Venice, Italy; Barcelona, Spain 1986 Lyon, France 1987 Tour former GDR: East-Berlin, Gera, Cottbus, Dresden 1988 Tel Aviv 1988 Reggio, Cremona, Bologna, Modena 1989 Paris 1992 Munich, Strasbourg 1993 Japan-Tour: Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto; Hong Kong 1994 Lisbon 2001 Athens