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German dance company Tanztheater Wuppertal is performing Pina Bausch’s 1982 work 'Carnation' in Korea for the first time in 25 years. Rehearsal director Edward Paul Martinez noted the current production uses two to three times more Korean than the 2000 Seoul staging, creating a different energy and improving local audience understanding. The show features a stage filled with 9,000 artificial carnations and portrays scenes of dancing women in high heels, guards with dogs, and the trampling of flowers—symbolizing oppression and violence. The cast blends senior members from the company with younger dancers who joined after 2019; Korean dancer Kim Na-young, the troupe’s only Korean member since 1996, served as rehearsal assistant. Performances run at LG Arts Center (Nov 6–9) and Sejong Arts Center (Nov 14–15). (Tanztheater = dance theatre; LG Arts Center and Sejong Arts Center = major Korean venues)