Dance evening by

Pina Bausch

The Seven Deadly Sins

Part I

Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins

ballet chanté

text by Bertolt Brecht

version for a deep female voice

arranged by Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg

 

Part II Don’t be afraid

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Choreography

Set Design / Costumes

Collaboration

Hans Pop

Musical Direction

Jan Michael Horstmann

Jan Michael Horstmann

Musical consulting

Music

Kurt Weill using songs from The Threepenny Opera, Little Threepenny Music, Happy End, The Berlin Requiem and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Text

Bertolt Brecht

World-Premiere

15 Jun 1976, Opera House Wuppertal

Duration

2h 25min, one intermission

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Cast

Dancers
Marlis Alt
Hiltrud Blanck
Tjitske Broersma
Sue Cooper
Fernando Cortizo
Michael Diekamp
Esco Edmondson
Josephine Ann Endicott
Laszlo Fenyves
Colleen Finneran
John Giffin
Mechthild Großmann
Lajos Horvath
Lajos Horvath
Margaret Huggenberger
Ann Höling
Zsolt Ketszery
Ed Kortlandt
Erich Leukert
Stephanie Macoun
Pedro Mascarello Bisch
Yolanda Meier
Jan Minařík
Willi Nett
Vivienne Newport
Barbara Passow
Hans Pop
Oskar Pürgstaller
Karin Rasenack
Monika Sagon
Heinz Samm
Siegfried Schmidt
Mathias Schmidt
Monika Wacker
Barry Wilkinson

Guest performances

  • Brussels

    1977

  • Berlin

    1977

  • Vienna

    1977

  • Nancy

    1977

  • Paris

    1979

  • New York

    1985

  • Ottawa

    1985

  • Montreal

    1985

  • Venice

    1985

  • Paris

    1986

  • Amsterdam

    1995

  • London

    1997

  • Saitama

    2002

  • Moscow

    2009

  • Berlin

    2009