The finance committee of the city of Wuppertal still has to approve the proposal.
Until then, the decision of the supervisory board of Tanztheater Pina Bausch to appoint the French dancer-choreographer Boris Charmatz, 48, as the ensemble's next artistic director remains a desideratum.
In any case, it was a big surprise.
Charmatz told participants at today's press conference to announce this decision that he “fell in love” with the city of Wuppertal, the company and the foundation after a visit.
Ah oui, l'amour!
The city underlines in its press release that the candidate shows respect for the work of Pina Bausch and for the ensemble.
With these formulations it is politely paraphrased that Charmatz, who last worked in Brittany, has no idea what to expect and no clear idea of the work that it means to bring the work of the world-famous dance theater choreographer, who died in 2009, to life, consisting of around forty pieces , playable, accessible and aesthetically authentic.
Just because he headed one of 19 choreographic centers in France in Rennes from 2009 to 2018 and declared it a “Musée de la Danse” does not mean that his study of dance history goes in depth.
Charmatz probably has a provocative-charlatan approach to the works of others.
More than a few choreographers have discovered to make dance a museum as an effective way out of the crisis of relevance in contemporary dance.
MOMA New York and London's Tate Modern have presented many dance positions in recent years, including Boris Charmatz.
Despite all the love, or rather being in love, it is apparently already clear that Charmatz does not intend to pitch his tents on the Wupper all year round.
According to his conception, the dance theater should see itself in the future as a Franco-German project.
However, it is said that the home of the ensemble remains the city that experienced Pina Bausch's death in 2009 as such a bitter loss, and which has since failed to define the future of the Tanztheater Wuppertal.