Pina Bausch’s Kontakthof: Every Moment of Every Day Matters

Pina Bausch’s Kontakthof, on show at Sadler’s Wells until the 6th of February, is a piece of dance theatre that deals with the every moment of every day. It is as current today as when it was premiered in 1978, because the essence of the daily in the human interactions, with oneself and the others, has not changed much. Bausch dissects what seems to be a civilised event unearthing a war zone: micro-aggression, judgemental comments, escalating to physical violence and gang rape. She rips bare the beast in us and the caring and supportive quality we can…