Height Company: Company and Dance Show

height company: Rating NNNNNThe late Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal company hasn't performed in Toronto in about three decades, which makes their Luminato show Kontakthof the most anticipated dance show of the season, according to NOW Magazine. The company doesn't disappoint. See listing. The massive 1978 work, one of those featured in Wim Wenders's haunting 2011 documentary/homage Pina, still feels startlingly fresh and invigorating. But what a treat to see Bausch's gloriously diverse in age, ethnicity, language, height company perform this nearly three-hour piece, bringing years of experience to a work they know so intimately. It's a work of such power and universal appeal that in the past decade and a half it's even been restaged for non-dance-professional seniors called Kontakthof At 65 and adolescents. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.