In ‘Sweet Mambo’ six women are running the show. They are elegant and sensual, and reveal their inner torment and hope, their feelings of desire, fury and disappointment. Surely a woman feels lonely after so many missed opportunities and encounters. The second-last work by Pina Bausch, with three men presenting facts, shows how a woman sees personal relationships, seduction and desire, in a highly philosophical treatise on the obsessive quest for happiness that is both comic and tragic. Ranging from sensitivity to laughter and sincerity, with lucid awareness of our fragility, Pina Bausch presents a delightful portrayal of our illusions and of our need for others.

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