Vollmond (Full moon) Tanztheater Wuppertal

Another splendid evening at Sadlers Wells yesterday - <http://sadlerswells.com/> - Vollmond (Full Moon) by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (http://www.pina-bausch.de/en/pieces/vollmond.php#).

And, would you believe it, there was a lot of 'tanz'!  Okay, so there were the usual props and frocks - chairs, bottles of water, glasses, but there were lots of excellent solos and thrilling group work.  Sometimes it is easy to feel that Pina Bausch's work relies too heavily on 'business' and 'jokes', however Vollmond proves this not to be the case.  Sadlers Wells was packed and I did not see anyone leave (unlike last week during Two Cigarettes in the Dark).

But water, there was a lot of water.....in glasses, in mineral water bottles - and then in a 'river' across the back of the stage and raining down from above.  The dancers danced, swam and played in the water.  They threw it at each other, they drenched the large rock that graced the stage for the entire piece.  I don't think I have seen that much water on stage since the last time I saw Tap Dogs!