Im Bade wannen (1992)

This is the choreographer’s most famous work, which won her the recognition and approval of the public as the worthy successor of Mary Wigman and Dore Hoyer. Susanne Linke dances around a bathtub, slips into it, moves away from it only to return to it. The extreme simplicity of the writing, the expressiveness of the gestural intention: the serious mood emerging from the interpretation makes this a key work of our era. 

Charles Picq made a documentary and two other solos (Flut and Wandlung) with the choreographer. While the choice of close-ups that conceal certain movements can be challenged at times, there is an undeniable complicity between the camera and the dancer. The tension and extreme concentration of Susanne Linke are visible on the close-up shots of her face and of her eyes sunk in dance, both serene and without dramatic play.