"Tanzt, Tanzt, sonst sind wir verloren," German choreographer Pina Bausch once said. "Dance, dance, or else we are lost."
Now two years after her death, her imperative lives on in her company Tanztheater Wuppertal, which returned to perform Bausch's 1995 "Danzón" on Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall stage courtesy of Cal Performances last weekend.
Bausch's variety of dance theater - evidenced in sprawling evening-length collages of surreal, seemingly absurd vignettes - is sometimes ridiculed, sometimes embraced and often misunderstood. But if her work seems at first glance to be random and incomprehensible, it can also be compelling and intensely personal - a potent dream sequence of images that will bring up different correlations and correspondences in the mind of each viewer. Importantly, what it is for you, may not be what it is for me.
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