36 Facts About Pina Bausch

Philippine "Pina" Bausch was a German dancer and choreographer who was a significant contributor to a neo-expressionist dance tradition now known as.

Pina Bausch created the company Tanztheater Wuppertal, which performs internationally.

Pina Bausch would perform for all of the guests in the hotel and occasionally go into their rooms and dance while they were trying to read the newspaper.

Pina Bausch was very soon performing with Tudor at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, and with Paul Taylor at New American Ballet.

In New York Pina Bausch performed with the Paul Sanasardo and Donya Feuer Dance Company and collaborated on two pieces with them in 1961.

In 1962, Pina Bausch joined Jooss' new as a soloist and assisted Jooss on many of the pieces.

Pina Bausch's approach was noted for a stylized blend of dance movement, prominent sound design, and involved stage sets, as well as for engaging the dancers under her to help in the development of a piece.

Pina Bausch's work, regarded as a continuation of the European and American expressionist movements, incorporated many expressly dramatic elements and often explored themes connected to trauma, particularly trauma arising out of relationships.

Pina Bausch's pieces were simple and rejected the classical forms of ballet.

When studying in New York, Pina Bausch sought influence from Martha Graham, Jose Limon, and Anna Sokolow.

For example, a defining characteristic of Pina Bausch's work is the continuous repetition of movements, as seen in Rite of Spring.

Pina Bausch faced substantial initial criticism after taking over as director of the Wuppertal Ballet in 1973.

In 1973, Pina Bausch was appointed artistic director of the Opernhaus Wuppertal ballet, as the Tanztheater Wuppertal, run as an independent company.

Pina Bausch has a large repertoire of original pieces, and regularly tours throughout the world from its home base of the Opernhaus Wuppertal.

Pina Bausch had most of the dancers perform this piece with their eyes closed.

Pina Bausch's pieces are constructed of short units of dialogue and action, often of a surreal nature.

The Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch made its American debut in Los Angeles as the opening performance of the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival.

In 2009, Bausch collaborated with film director Wim Wenders on a 3D documentary, Pina, but died suddenly two days before the shoot was due to start in June 2009.

Pina Bausch was a member of the ensemble in 1975 and was artistic director of the Limon Dance Company in the 1980s.

Pina Bausch was the first director after Bausch's death to bring in outside choreographers to be a part of the company's seasons.

Pina Bausch continues to perform Bausch's work in new ways, as well as creating and performing new works.

Pina Bausch created Aatt enen tionon, which features music by PJ Harvey, in the early 1990s, during the AIDS epidemic; in it, the dancers are separated on three levels of a platform.

Pina Bausch's sets altered the stage floor itself and were often filled with elements of nature.

Pina Bausch was awarded the Deutscher Tanzpreis in 1995.

Since she took over the direction of the Wuppertal Tanztheater 25 years ago, Pina Bausch has used her training and experience as a soloist in classical ballet to literally invent a new genre, a combination of theatre, dance, music, and visual arts in which score and improvisation come together, very close to the dream of a total theatre that juxtaposes the individual talents of an extraordinary ensemble with a precise concept of time and space.

Pina Bausch won the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy in 2007.

Pina Bausch was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Pina Bausch was first married to Polish-born Rolf Borzik, a set and costume designer who died of leukaemia in 1980.

Pina Bausch died on 30 June 2009 in Wuppertal, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, aged 68 of an unstated form of cancer five days after diagnosis.

Pina Bausch's work had an influence on modern dance from the 1970s forward.

Pina Bausch was the main impetus for the piece as she had brought Cherkaoui and Shivalingappa to collaborate in 2008 to perform for the final edition of her festival.

Wenders' documentary, Pina Bausch, was released in late 2011 in the United States, and is dedicated to her memory.

Works by Pina Bausch were staged in June and July 2012 as a highlight of the Cultural Olympiad preceding the Olympic Games 2012 in London.

Pina Bausch's style has influenced performers such as David Bowie, who designed part of his 1987 Glass Spider Tour with Pina Bausch in mind.

The photo of Pina Bausch's performance was previously released on Reddit as well as Twitter with the implication that it was from a Russian mental institution, but its source was quickly identified.

Several of Pina Bausch's works were announced as because she chose a title late in the development of a work.