The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Bettina Wagner-Bergelt and Héléna Pikon (Germany) livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 23 June 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Bettina Wagner-Bergelt took over the artistic direction of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch on 1 January 2019. From 2000 to 2016 she was deputy director of the Bayerisches Staatsballett and from 1990 to 2016 its head dramaturg. In Munich she built up an outstanding, international repertoire of modern and avant garde works. With the education programme she developed, CAMPUS Staatsballett, Bettina Wagner-Bergelt initiated a benchmark interdisciplinary outreach scheme for dance and ballet. In 1987 she founded the Munich festival DANCE – Internationales Tanzfestival der Landeshauptstadt München and was its artistic director in 1987, 1989, 2008 and 2010.
Héléna Pikon began dancing professionally in 1975, at first with Jacques Patarozzi in the company La Main. In 1981, Pina Bausch invited her to join the company as a permanent member of the ensemble. She was part of the original cast in Walzer, Carnations, On the Mountain a Cry was heard, Two Cigarettes in the Dark, Viktor, Ahnen, The Piece with the Ship, Ein Trauerspiel, Only You, The Window Washer, Wiesenland, Água, For the children of yesterday, today and tomorrow, Ten Chi, Full Moon, 'Sweet Mambo', as well as in Bon Voyage, Bob by the guest choreographer Alan Lucien Øyen. She also appeared in The Complaint of the Empress, a film by Pina Bausch, and in Wim Wenders’ film PINA.
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